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Misguided?

You are one to call me Misguided. From your post, you obviously have no clue as to how Windows or UNIX works.

Windows has a perfectly sound security model, that unfortunately is underused. You don't have to log on as an administrator in Windows.

ActiveX controls can only be installed by administrators. There is a reason for that which you have already touched on.

Windows XP's unfortunate default of making users administrators was done in the name of backward compatability - not out of Microsoft's misunderstanding of security, and this default setting is not the cause of the security problems Windows users face.

Your focus on root-level permisions exposes your superficial understanding of how modern operating systems work. Malware writers don't need root to infect a OSX, or a windows, or linux or *BSD.

If had even a modicum of understand about how OS's worked, you would know this...but you don't.

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