On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:49:54 PM walt wrote: > BTW, I tried the latest firefox in a Win7 virtual machine and I was > shocked to see that firefox was updating itself when I was logged in > as an unprivileged user (i.e. *not* an Administrator). Are the idiots > at M$ *really* that stupid? They've learned nothing, apparently, since > Win 95 :(
At the risk of being flamed, the security model of NT operating systems is actually far superior to that of Linux with all the disaster kits. The problem is that Windows users don't want to be bothered with security settings. When the set the default to ask for password on vista they where flooded with negative feedback. MS being a commercial company would indeed be stupid not to give them what they want. As a user you could use an unprivileged account and use runas just like sudo on Linux but that's too much for Windows users so they took it a step further, even if you got admin rights it will ask for permission (optionally password) before doing anything privileged, still users blindly click OK on those dialogs (like you did with firefox). If firefox follows MS guidelines it won't let an unpriviliged user (unless an user with admin rights explicitly sets an option allowing it, probably during install) update it even technically it can cause you allowed it to install. -- Fernando Rodriguez
