RE: Shared permissions vs. security

From: Carl Gross (CarlGross_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/20/05 

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:17:20 -0700

Can you recommend a security setting that I can enter to keep viruses like
Backdoor.Trojan from propogating through (allowing people to work on the
network and yet not allow THINGS or hackers permission to run amock).

"Carl Gross" wrote:

> I have been trying to make our network more secure by setting each
> workstation hardrive shared between Domain Admins with Full Control rights.
>
> What is the difference between setting this permission and selecting the
> Security tab to have the same permissions except adding the SYSTEM and user
> at that workstation?
>
> We have W2K SP4 workstations on a SBS 2003 server.

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