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On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:49:54 PM walt wrote: |
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> BTW, I tried the latest firefox in a Win7 virtual machine and I was |
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> shocked to see that firefox was updating itself when I was logged in |
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> as an unprivileged user (i.e. *not* an Administrator). Are the idiots |
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> at M$ *really* that stupid? They've learned nothing, apparently, since |
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> Win 95 :( |
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At the risk of being flamed, the security model of NT operating systems is |
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actually far superior to that of Linux with all the disaster kits. The problem |
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is that Windows users don't want to be bothered with security settings. When |
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the set the default to ask for password on vista they where flooded with |
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negative feedback. MS being a commercial company would indeed be stupid not to |
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give them what they want. |
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As a user you could use an unprivileged account and use runas just like sudo |
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on Linux but that's too much for Windows users so they took it a step further, |
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even if you got admin rights it will ask for permission (optionally password) |
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before doing anything privileged, still users blindly click OK on those |
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dialogs (like you did with firefox). |
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If firefox follows MS guidelines it won't let an unpriviliged user (unless an |
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user with admin rights explicitly sets an option allowing it, probably during |
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install) update it even technically it can cause you allowed it to install. |
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Fernando Rodriguez |
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