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Once again, don't run with administrative rights

There's Ryan's favorite hole again, "abitrary code execution" and no mention of "don't run with admin rights".

You're not invulnerable by not having administrative rights, but you can mitigate the chances of having something like a keyboard logger on your system on account of running an unpatched browser.

Use the following tool:

http://www.download.com/RemoveAdmin/3000-2381_4-10824971.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10835515

While the installer for RemoveAdmin sets up shortcuts for IE and Firefox only, just view either shortcut's properties to note RemoveAdmin is really a general purpose tool and you can setup a shortcut to launch Opera (or anything) and strip administrative rights when doing so if you're running it on Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows Vista with UAC off.

-M

Posted by: betelgeuse68   Posted on: 10/09/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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