Nate
March 10th 05, 09:27 PM
Running XP Home, with me as the only user, is there any security
advantage to logging in as a non-admin user? For instance, is there
any advantage if I run as user but switch to admin only when doing
online banking - as anti-hacker or anti-spyware protection? If the
admin logon is pwd protected, can I set my overall password file so
that if a hacker gets in wwhehn I am user, he can't read the admin's
files?
By way of reference, I once was root on a Linux server, and couldn't
even login as root - I had to switch to it once logged on. So, I have
a general understanding of multi-user permissions in general; but I
have no idea as yet how this applies to XP Home in particular.
Can anybody recommend a well-written primer on this subject? Thanks.
advantage to logging in as a non-admin user? For instance, is there
any advantage if I run as user but switch to admin only when doing
online banking - as anti-hacker or anti-spyware protection? If the
admin logon is pwd protected, can I set my overall password file so
that if a hacker gets in wwhehn I am user, he can't read the admin's
files?
By way of reference, I once was root on a Linux server, and couldn't
even login as root - I had to switch to it once logged on. So, I have
a general understanding of multi-user permissions in general; but I
have no idea as yet how this applies to XP Home in particular.
Can anybody recommend a well-written primer on this subject? Thanks.