RE: Recent bugtraq postings

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ya, so with Windows XP pro, try setting anyone up with anything but
"Computer Administrator" and watch what all won't work. I have contacted at
least 3 different vendors on this and they all say "it has to be run by that
account". Heck, even Microsoft says that... I couldn't believe it at
first...

Am I missing something ?

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 5:31 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Recent bugtraq postings


very true.  I have problems running my W2K PC as anything but
administrator.  But that is because of bugs in the application
software that I dont have time to deal with. If your enterprise is
serious about security, you have to prevent people from logging in as
administrator.

my working assumption is that a modern windows PC cannot be infected,
hijacked or otherwise hacked if the user is running as a simple user
account.

-Steve