Re: Being logged on as admin and user at the same time (in XP)?

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 01/04/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 01:17:23 -0700

Would the admin account be OK ??
By that just what do you mean?
In an XP when you are using the other account, then
the desktop / login session of the first (admin) is not
active (that is, not drawing CPU cycles).
However, it does hold resources, and so it may be
possible for something to adjust these, working at at
rather low level.
But if your question is something like "If I am running
as a limited user, but have a switched out administrative
account, can something I do in the limited account session
make use of the switched out administrative account to
elevate itself and so have an administrative impact?"
If that is close to the question, the answer is no. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
<gaikokujinkyofusho@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1104816600.854020.226930@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi, i have a security questions of sorts.  In XP (I think) there is a
> way that multiple users can be logged in at the same time (Say admin
> and regular user) and you can just switch between the two (kinda).  My
> question is, would the admin account be ok if i had it running while i
> was doing most of my stuff in the user account? (using the user account
> so that viruses etc have less chance to nuke my system).  Any help or
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Cheers
>
> -Gaiko
>

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