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echo: nthelp
to: Geo
from: Paul Ranson
date: 2005-09-21 15:58:58
subject: Re: firewall configuration

From: "Paul Ranson" 

So you're stuffed then.

How is the OS supposed to tell the difference between you asking to do
something and not expecting to get a password demand and some malware
you've allowed onto your machine where you do expect to get notified?

Paul

"Geo"  wrote in message news:4330c56b{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
> news:43301505{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Are you proposing a 'super administrator' priviledge to over come this?
>
> No, I'm suggesting that assuming the user is not running as admin is a bad
> assumption. In the business desktop world that may be valid but for the
> home
> machine I think it's a different mentality. For example, I don't care to
> have my machine EVER tell me I don't have permissions to do something so
> I'm
> always running as administrator or root.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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