Re: What good are XP Pro User Accounts?
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Date: 02/26/05
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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:42:48 GMT
correction.
...you could easily set up a new Admin account, and then set Deny on
every privilege for that specific account on every folder, except
Read/Execute privilege on \Windows, and Read/Execute/Write/Modify
privilege on the folder in which the game is installed.
JW wrote:
> there are zillions of examples of programs that run fine in all accounts
> and do not require Admin rights. software can be designed to run in all
> accounts, or can be designed to run in only the Admin account. your
> problem is with the Sims software, and not a problem with XP.
>
> is it possible to create an account that allows her to play this game
> without gaining full system access ? with NTFS permissions, you could
> easily set up a new Admin account, and then set Deny on every privilege
> on every folder for that specific account, except
> Read/Execute/Write/Modify on the folder in which the game is installed.
> use CyberPatrol to restrict her access to programs and the internet.
>
> finally, there is No 100% guarantee of security, as long as you have an
> internet connection. you are definitely safer with anti-virus,
> anti-spyware, and firewall protection, but this is No 100% guarantee of
> security for several reasons.
>
> for example, anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall software, and especially
> Internet Explorer, have been defeated by infections in the past (either
> shut down or compromised for escalation of privileges). this is besides
> the fact that anti-virus and anti-spyware development is reactive by
> design (always reacting to new infections), and consequently you will
> always be behind the timing of new infection development/release --
> always vulnerable between the time new infections are
> developed/released, and the time you finally get an update for your PC
> protection (which might be hours or days).
>
>
>
> Kurt M. Sanger wrote:
>
>> My daughter has a game, Sims 2, that requires her to run it from my
>> admin account. What good does it do to have Win XP Pro and require
>> all users to have admin rights to run the software you want?
>>
>> Is it possible to create an account that allows my daughter to play
>> this game without gaining full system access? She's not old enough to
>> know what not to do.
>>
>> Can I create an admin account that may not access the internet so she
>> can run the game without me worrying about her installing additional
>> features, ie trojans, viruses, and spyware? I can't rely on her to
>> unplug eithernet, nor block internet traffic. She does know how to
>> turn it on, log in, and run her game though.
>>
>> We're running XP Pro, SP2, with EZ Firewall, EZ Antivirus, Roadrunner,
>> adaware, and spybot. (And we're still vulnerable).
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