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Microsoft considers taking admin rights from employees
News As Microsoft moves its internal desktop systems to Windows Vista, the company is contemplating whether to change a long running tradition and take away admin rights from its employees in order to improve security.
[May 30, 2006, 10:15]
Microsoft considers taking admin rights from employees
Talkback Well, experimenting today with a security model common to every other modern OS seems a bit late in my view. And I wonder what this will do for backward compatibility.
[May 31, 2006, 23:47]
Open source renders patching a problem
Talkback How many times do you have to give normal users (especially mobile ones) either Power User or Admin rights just to do little things and even when they don't have the privileges the computers still get infected with Adware & spyware.
[November 26, 2005, 17:22]
Wrong
Talkback Plus there are issues with software that requires admin rights to run, and there is alot of business software out there like that. This is the same issue that admins already have with people using this kind of software and having to give people...
[July 10, 2007, 10:52]
Changes to user security in Vista
News Vista takes two approaches to administrators and their rights: Admin Approval Mode and the Over-the-shoulder (OTS) Credential approach. When operating in Admin Approval Mode, administrators log on and run applications such as email and Web browsing...
[October 10, 2006, 16:50]
Norton AV flaw may put PCs at risk of virus attack
News The malicious dialler programs need admin rights as well but there are widespread incidents of it happening. In businesses [admin rights] are not so much of an issue but in the consumer market it might be," Fadaghi said.
[November 9, 2004, 9:28]
Red Hat disputes CERT vulnerability figures
Talkback With the researchers focus explained, and considering that all Linux softwares have direct counterparts (with same codebase even) on Windows, it somewhat makes sense: since all users and all apps have admin rights by default on a Windows system...
[February 23, 2006, 16:03]
A worm belies Apple's perfection
Talkback It is a program that can delete files and mess with settings if you install it with Admin rights. What they said about Opener is that it is not a threat and it is not. It can do nothing automatically.
[November 5, 2004, 14:57]
Guide to Deploy the AXIGEN Outlook Connector Via Active Directory
White Papers This paper assumes one will be deploying software on a set of machines in which the user does not have local admin rights, so it will focus on the process to deploy onto the computers via the Computer Configuration GPO (Group Policy Object) settings.
[February 13, 2009, 0:24]
LogMeIn Free
Downloads No requirement for remote PC admin rights.Version 4.0.966 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes. LogMeIn Free includes: access from any Internet-connected Web browser; access to a Windows PC or Mac, remote control and desktop...
[September 9, 2009, 4:26]
Telnet Ftp Server
Downloads Server includes an administration module that gives remote users (with admin rights) full control to Telnet-Ftp Server. Telnet - Ftp Server is a multi-user Telnet/Ftp server with administration console build in, and is compatible with any Windows...
[June 15, 2006, 18:29]
Another day, another exploit - and this time it’s not Conficker!
Talkback The study also found that eliminating admin rights would have stopped or mitigated: of Microsoft Office vulnerabilities reported in 2008 of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities reported in 2008 of Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities reported in 2008
[April 6, 2009, 10:03]
Protecting yourself from the MSBlast worm
Talkback I have a severe problem.going through some old unlabeled disks I installed a win 32 blast worm onto my home pc.though I found no post that had my description.It has erased all my admin accounts.Made it impossible to use my A drive or any cd drives...
[April 5, 2004, 21:38]
The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding
Downloads Simple & advanced searching, pedigree, descendancy, report generator, GEDCOM import/export, admin interface & more. Protect private data with user rights. The ultimate in online genealogy, with PHP/MySQL.
[October 15, 2009, 4:04]
There's no worm in your Apple - honest
Talkback The security flaw used by Opener/Worm is the access rights on /Library, which by defaut is writable by the admin group. The Opener/Worm replicates himself when a / partition of a distant machine is mounted (by an admin of the distant machine).
[November 2, 2004, 10:21]
Firefox snaps at IE's heels
Talkback Also most people on corporate networks don't have the admin rights to install their own choice of software anyway so I hardly see how that factors into it. Agree totally John - and don't you just love that last line: "Firefox is part of the large...
[November 23, 2004, 13:22]
Bye bye ISDN
Blog Comment Furthermore, their standard issue is to supply home workers with Thinkpad notebooks with the wireless connectivity switched off (and only with admin user rights so this can't be changed) Their policy is that ADSL and wireless pose severe security...
[April 11, 2007, 13:14]
Microsoft patches seven holes
News The vulnerability could enable someone who already has limited user privileges on a vulnerable computer to gain admin rights, Microsoft said in Security Bulletin MS06-011. As part of its monthly patch cycle, Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for...
[March 15, 2006, 8:45]
Very good
Member Review The only things I haven't sorted out yet are setting up a printer on one of the USB ports and setting up different rights for different users (it comes with 2 users admin & guest already configured). Had mine for several weeks now.
[November 10, 2006, 12:02]
Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox review
Reviews The drive is easy to set up and use, thanks to the fact that no admin rights or driver/application installation is required. More and more people are transporting sensitive data on USB flash drives, which are even more portable and even more easily...
[August 26, 2008, 9:35]
