RE: Administrator Accounts

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > > If it doesn't "run in user mode" WTF was 
> > > it ever get approved for use in the business?

> Because in a monopoly environment, the choices 
> are "take it" and "leave it".
> And if "leave it" isn't an option, it gets 
> approved for use, no matter how ugly it is... 

I think "it" in this case is the application, not Windows (which I would
argue is not really a monopoly either, but that's another provocative
thread). The application is probably not a monopoly, but some large internal
program that writes a hell of a lot of data to the app's Program Files
directory or to values in the HKLM hive, and that's why it requires admin
access.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 


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