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Is using Windows as admin security risk?!
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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 918908" data-attributes="member: 83059"><p>It's not as bad as running as root on Linux/FreeBSD, and not as bad as running as Admin on Windows 2000 and below, but it's still more risk. In addition to UAC bypass techniques, we have seen time after time that malware will use interesting techniques to either evade or steal files and those "just work" on an Admin account but are not allowed as a standard user.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 918908, member: 83059"] It's not as bad as running as root on Linux/FreeBSD, and not as bad as running as Admin on Windows 2000 and below, but it's still more risk. In addition to UAC bypass techniques, we have seen time after time that malware will use interesting techniques to either evade or steal files and those "just work" on an Admin account but are not allowed as a standard user. [/QUOTE]
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