XP pro security question

From: David Jones (kk7gw_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/29/03 

Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 17:10:26 -0700

If you're using FAT, all your points are moot. FAT has
no security at all, and all users can add and delete
whatever files they want anywhere on the drive.

No matter about Add/Remove Programs, nothing prevents me
as a regular user from just deleting random application
folders on a FAT drive, or creating whatever files I
want, putting them where I want.

>-----Original Message-----
>I have XP pro installed in a home environment, with
family members as
>users. They are set up as 'users', not 'administrators'.
>
>For some reason, when I log onto one of their accouts, I
am able to
>access the 'Add or Remove Programs' menu, which should
not be
>accessible from their accounts. I was even able to get
there from the
>'guests' account. How secure is that?!
>
>Once, I got a message "You do not have permission to add
or remove
>programs .... see your Administrator ..." (not sure of
exact context).
>But all the other times I am able to access that
function.
>
>The drive is not set up NTFS, but I don't think that
that should
>affect this particular security feature.
>
>Have I not configured something correctly? Should I
verify any other
>security area? Should I convert to NTFS (I didn't since
I didn't want
>the 512 allocation block size implementation)?
>
>Thanks in advance, Lee Bowman
>.
>

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