Re: Risk by granting all users admin priveledges

From: Greg (greg_at_none.none)
Date: 05/08/03


Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 01:08:41 +0200


Hi,

Some Microsoft products (mostly home usage) are not designed for the NT
family of Windows (
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B307091 ). To run
these applications you can have your family use administrative accounts with
runas and deny these accounts access from network.

They'll be ready to be Windows admin !-)

Regards.

"mec" <mailtomec@yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:e21b056c.0305070805.15a24d2d@posting.google.com...
> Hi, due to major problems when running apps with 'user' priveledge I
> am about to grant all users (my family) the 'admin' priveledge on my
> private stand-alone PC. Having installed an antivirus scanner +
> firewall, I would expect this setup to (at least) equal my former
> Win98 setup, as regards security level. Agree?
>
> Cheers, Martin DK.



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