Comments on: Windows XP Home: Running as a User http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/07/30/windows-xp-home-running-as-a-user/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:30:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/07/30/windows-xp-home-running-as-a-user/#comment-5680 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:31:35 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/07/30/windows-xp-home-running-as-a-user/#comment-5680 Yup, when you weigh the annoyance it causes against the actual security benefit for *you* it just doesn't make sense. Then again, when I set up a computer for my dad to use, I did set him up as user. Since I'm the one who patches it, installs software and etc, he might as well be a little bit more protected against rogue drive-by-installs on the internet out there. Yup, when you weigh the annoyance it causes against the actual security benefit for *you* it just doesn’t make sense.

Then again, when I set up a computer for my dad to use, I did set him up as user. Since I’m the one who patches it, installs software and etc, he might as well be a little bit more protected against rogue drive-by-installs on the internet out there.

]]> by: Matt` http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/07/30/windows-xp-home-running-as-a-user/#comment-5677 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:47:49 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/07/30/windows-xp-home-running-as-a-user/#comment-5677 I tried this once and very quickly realised how often I do low-level admin stuff. I don't have so much in the way of automated updates or other automatic things, so I guess it would really be more a case of learning a quick way to elevate myself in all the various situations, but I decided that since I haven't seen any virus infections for ages it was easier just to carry on as I was I tried this once and very quickly realised how often I do low-level admin stuff.

I don’t have so much in the way of automated updates or other automatic things, so I guess it would really be more a case of learning a quick way to elevate myself in all the various situations, but I decided that since I haven’t seen any virus infections for ages it was easier just to carry on as I was

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