So I was wondering how the forum members (in this quite technical forum) run they day-to-day desktop operating system, with relation to their security settings. And by that, I mean specially the user rights of the credentials you use to login into your desktop and with which you browse the Internet.
Unix/Linux has always made an obvious divide between root and non-root users.
Windows, is a different thing: although the NT family has that divide also built-in, most users and developers came from the DOS/Windows95 way of doing things, and therefore it has been a tradition for Windows 2k/XP users to also run as Administrators for their day-to-day use of the computer. And that tradition has been a source for millions of virus infections for Windows users.
That tradition, of course, was driven also by the seer amount of software for Windows that was developed for the Windows 95 "security model", and which would fail to run properly if executed with non-Administrator rights. Microsoft was aware of that "problem", which they called "LUA bug", and tried to (somewhat) solve it in Vista/7 with UAC.
So, please vote in the poll and lets see how securely/insecurely we tend to run our desktops...
Unix/Linux has always made an obvious divide between root and non-root users.
Windows, is a different thing: although the NT family has that divide also built-in, most users and developers came from the DOS/Windows95 way of doing things, and therefore it has been a tradition for Windows 2k/XP users to also run as Administrators for their day-to-day use of the computer. And that tradition has been a source for millions of virus infections for Windows users.
That tradition, of course, was driven also by the seer amount of software for Windows that was developed for the Windows 95 "security model", and which would fail to run properly if executed with non-Administrator rights. Microsoft was aware of that "problem", which they called "LUA bug", and tried to (somewhat) solve it in Vista/7 with UAC.
So, please vote in the poll and lets see how securely/insecurely we tend to run our desktops...