AplusWebMaster
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FYI…
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/…/art2.mspx#EEAA
"… If low-privileged processes are compromised, they will do a lot less damage to a system than high-privileged processes are capable of doing. Consequently, using a non-administrator account instead of an administrator account while completing daily tasks offers the user added protection against infection from a host of malware, external or internal security attacks, accidental or intentional modifications to system setup and configurations, and accidental or intentional access to confidential programs or documents.
Given the obvious security benefits, there is a huge desire, both in home and corporate environments, to run Windows using non-administrator accounts. Unfortunately, almost all Windows users today continue to use an administrator account for their daily tasks.
A host of nefarious users and applications rely on being able to use the victim's administrator privileges for such dirty work as destroying or stealing data, reconfiguring another application, or installing a key logger that sends each of the unsuspecting user's keystrokes off to some unknown location on the other side of the Internet…"
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- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/…/art2.mspx#EEAA
"… If low-privileged processes are compromised, they will do a lot less damage to a system than high-privileged processes are capable of doing. Consequently, using a non-administrator account instead of an administrator account while completing daily tasks offers the user added protection against infection from a host of malware, external or internal security attacks, accidental or intentional modifications to system setup and configurations, and accidental or intentional access to confidential programs or documents.
Given the obvious security benefits, there is a huge desire, both in home and corporate environments, to run Windows using non-administrator accounts. Unfortunately, almost all Windows users today continue to use an administrator account for their daily tasks.
A host of nefarious users and applications rely on being able to use the victim's administrator privileges for such dirty work as destroying or stealing data, reconfiguring another application, or installing a key logger that sends each of the unsuspecting user's keystrokes off to some unknown location on the other side of the Internet…"…For your daily word processing, web surfing, and e-mail, read more - click on the URL above, and get one!