...and you call this easy? It seems to me that this is the exact sort of thing that Windows users like to rip on Linux users for; i.e. the "That's simple, all you have to do is *insert paragraph of technical chatter*!" Why on EARTH would any decent operating system require you to go through all that, just to avoid running as a user that has enough permissions to hose your system? Under any recent GUI for Linux, and in OS X, all that happens is a window pops up asking you for your root/admin password, with some optional additional info if you're suspicious and want to know exactly why. While I'm not going to go overboard like so many often do on this site and claim that Microsoft should be disbanded and BGates thrown in jail for this or something, I still think it's rather irresponsible of Microsoft to leave this gaping wide open (yeah, yeah, goat.cx and all that) vector of attack in their operating system. You can't expect the average user to go through the steps you've outlined above, just like you can't expect the average user to go through, for example, a Linux install.
Running "most" of my applications from an Explorer window (thus opening it up to the aforementioned security risks), and occasionally having to log out completely and log back on as another user for a few others, just so you don't have to run as Admin? No thanks. I dual boot into Windows for games I can't otherwise play, and even that reboot time has me keeping a close eye on the progress of virtualization projects just as Parallels.
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Wasn't referring to me ... look a few posts up and you'll see a joke has already been made.
Must....not....make....joke....about...injection hole...being plugged...
Damn, too late.
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...and you call this easy? It seems to me that this is the exact sort of thing that Windows users like to rip on Linux users for; i.e. the "That's simple, all you have to do is *insert paragraph of technical chatter*!" Why on EARTH would any decent operating system require you to go through all that, just to avoid running as a user that has enough permissions to hose your system? Under any recent GUI for Linux, and in OS X, all that happens is a window pops up asking you for your root/admin password, with some optional additional info if you're suspicious and want to know exactly why. While I'm not going to go overboard like so many often do on this site and claim that Microsoft should be disbanded and BGates thrown in jail for this or something, I still think it's rather irresponsible of Microsoft to leave this gaping wide open (yeah, yeah, goat.cx and all that) vector of attack in their operating system. You can't expect the average user to go through the steps you've outlined above, just like you can't expect the average user to go through, for example, a Linux install.
Running "most" of my applications from an Explorer window (thus opening it up to the aforementioned security risks), and occasionally having to log out completely and log back on as another user for a few others, just so you don't have to run as Admin? No thanks. I dual boot into Windows for games I can't otherwise play, and even that reboot time has me keeping a close eye on the progress of virtualization projects just as Parallels.
~KNS