-----Original Message----- From: Jarry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:04 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus
Bob Young wrote: > In the vast majority of Windows cases, simply *not* routinely logging on > with admin privileges would probably stop 99% plus of the infections. True, but unfortunatelly, there are too many win-applications (even serious ones), which does not work correctly (or at all) without user having admin (power-user) privileges... PowerUser is different from Admin, Admin is the equevelent of root in the Linux/Unix world, PowerUser is not. The primary and most important difference is the ability to *write* to the registry, It's perfectly safe to routinely log on as a PowerUser, as PowerUsers can *not* write to registry keys that affect the entire system, while Admin users can write to *any* registry key. Most applications will run just fine as PowerUser, apps that truly *require* Admin rights are frankly, poorly designed. Even so, routinely logging on with Admin rights just because you need/want to run one or two badly designed apps is still a very bad idea. For the very very few aps that actually do require Admin rights RunAs is a much better and safer solution. Regards, Bob Young -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
