Re: XP/Home Security issues

From: Mike Brannigan [MS] (mikebran@online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/07/02 

From: "Mike Brannigan [MS]" <mikebran@online.microsoft.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 15:02:24 +0100

What have the vendors of your games said about THEIR requirement to run as
an administrator account ??

The fact that a games demands that it be run under an administrative account
may point to just poor or sloppy design or coding in the game, it may also
be the only way that the games developers could get around any "security"
the home user may have tried to enforce on the PC without being fully aware
of what their actions are.

> Many games can only be run in administrator mode. What is
> being done to correct this?

Very little I presume - it is an issue for the software developer to address

>Security is useless (ans so is XP/Home) if I have to give everyone
Administrator
> access to run their programs.

Indeed if you choose to run software that requires compromises in security
on your systems then that is your choice.
Get and use only better or more security aware software. 

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"Keith Williams" <keithwilliams@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Many games can only be run in administrator mode. What is
> being done to correct this? Security is useless (ans so
> is XP/Home) if I have to give everyone Administrator
> access to run their programs.