From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:sj0jt1h1cqqnd4jbpdipfc4b4doh5ntnvg{at}4ax.com...

> I don't know whether mucking around with permissions would cause problems
> with support from Microsoft, but if you read a little in newsgroups etc
> you would see suggestions that there really is no benefit to changing the
> default XP or W2003 permissions, and that making such changes often leads
> to unforseen problems.

That's cause people always change permissions globally. If they change just
the permissions on .exe files they could accomplish pretty much the same
thing without breaking so much other stuff.

Geo.

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