On Thursday 07 September 2006 08:12, Chong Yu Meng wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 07:51 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I advised my family to buy XP Pro rather than Home, thinking this would > > make the difference, but it doesn't. There's still only User, totally > > locked-down, and Administrator, totally open. > > > > I've been told that it's possible to force XP to allow limited rights as > > in W2K, but no-one has told me how to do it, and I haven't discovered it. > > You will want to be careful if you want to use only accounts with > restricted rights. Some applications will only work as Administrator, > and if your user's computer needs to join a NT or Active Directory > domain, sometimes you need to assign Administrator rights to a normal > user so that things like Antivirus updates or patches can be pushed to > them when they logon. > > With Windows systems, there is nothing quite like having technicians or > engineers on-call 24/7. And a set of spare laptops/desktops just in > case. <sigh> Since that's not an option on a home LAN I have to rely on trying to educate them to the risks and setting up firewalling as best I can. So far, though, we have kept reasonably clean, over a period of 10 or more years. Of course I make sure that they use Mozilla or Firefox rather than IE, and Mozilla Mail rather than OE. That enormously reduces the risk. I also make sure that they have a good AV product running and properly configured as well as automatic updates of signatures. By now, this is OT. Sorry Anne
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