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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QB] True. But lot's of people don't, judging by how widespread the MS Blaster worm was last year. It's the sort of thing that I'm glad MS has left on my default. Those who want to go there manually can, while the masses just get on with using their computer without having to worry about it. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mucus: [qb]Now, Windows does theoretically does allow the use of non-Administrator accounts, but its not as secure and its certainly not as usable because you have to relogon to an Administrator account everytime you want to do something important.[/qb][/QUOTE]Nope, still not seeing the difference. If you're in a non-Admin account in Windows and want to do Admin stuff, you have to re-login as an admin. To do important stuff in Linux, you have to enter in the Very Important Password. Considering that it takes roughly 5 seconds to log off or switch users using XP, I fail to see how it's so much more amazingly great to do it the Linux way as oppossed to creating an admin account for yourself, passwording it, and making everyone else use a User account. I can't see how the Linux one is more secure, because in both cases, you have to know the admin password to mess things up. Unless the person hasn't set one up on their Windows installation. But it strikes me as being the sort of situation where people who need them will set them up, and people who won't...won't. I certainly wouldn't want to have to enter a password everytime I want to do something on my machine, since I'm the only one that uses it. The only reason why the Linux one seems to be "more secure" is that people who use Linux are going to be the sort of people who would set up passwords in the first place. Does that mean you have to enter a password in Linux everytime a web-site wants to put a cookie on your computer, or you want to change the resolution, or stuff like that? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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