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Authored by: ansiwen on Mar 06, '09 10:48:13AM

If you agree, that there are "permission issues" with using an admin account, you will also agree that there is a difference in permissions of an admin- and a non-admin account. (In fact, the difference is just being in the "admin" group or not.) It does not matter at all, what threat scenario you're looking at (viruses, trojans, the user itself...), the attack surface is always significantly lower if you are not working with an admin account. And there is no difference in security demands for normal or admin users, although there are some "administrators" who think they don't need the same security as their users.



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