Tuulilapsi
Kenosis
join:2002-07-29
Finland
| reply to redxii
Re: XP: Your Very own Low-Rights IE
Agreed - software vendors, in particular security software vendors - should both advocate the concept of least privilege and write their programs to work properly with non-admin accounts. What I would like to see is MS getting really rough on anyone who churns out code that breaks with non-admin accounts. If you remember those lovely "This driver has not been certified for XP compatibility" warnings, perhaps something like that would be in order: "Warning: This software is not compatible with (fancy term like 'Windows Protected User Accounts' here). This software is poorly coded and may jeopardize the security of your system, and your socks. Do you still wish to proceed with the installation?" If anyone could get away with doing that, it's MS. What are vendors going to do? Start writing all their apps for other operating systems, as if the majority used them? It would work. 
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