From: "Paul Ranson" 

Because you cannot adjust the firewall settings without 'administrator' priviledge.

Paul

"Geo"  wrote in message news:432a2b1d{at}w3.nls.net...
> What is already the case? I suggested that when a firewall rule change is
> detected that the firewall software verify that the change is authorized
> by
> asking the user for a password before allowing the change to go into
> effect.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
> news:43294b61$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> If you're running as a 'USER' then surely that is already the case? If
>> you're running as administrator then you've already authenticated
>> yourself
>> to the machine.
>>
>> Paul

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