Re: Win7 Security -- PCTECH

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Sorry about the then/than mix-up. That slipped by my proofreading.

The point, to be clear, is that under any modern OS, there's no need for the average user - that includes developers and systems administrators - to use an Admin-level ID for regular productivity. Elevating the privileges of specific apps or logging in as Admin to a sandboxed environment for admin activities is far safer.

On , CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Seems so rarely is the case, the "then" is proper in that context,

although almost surely the intent was to write "than" versus "then",

else seemingly there is a contradiction :-)

On 16 Nov 2012 08:02, chianime@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>>

> 2. I would advise against it. Better to fix the actual problem then

> let the user run as the Windows equivalent of QSECOFR. A lot of

> malware needs admin rights to infect a machine.

> >

>

> On , "Jerry C. Adams" midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> >

>> 2. Is there a way to run the PC, in toto, under the admin account

>> settings?

>> >

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