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Jeff

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 21:23 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 19:47 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > 
> >>James Sumners wrote:
> >>
> >>>3. Don't run as root.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Most definately.  This is one of the major reasons that Windows systems
> >>are so vulnerable, because the end-user always runs as the Windows equal
> >>to UNIX's root user.
> > 
> > 
> > In MS' defense, That has been true only of Win95 and descendants (98,
> > ME) and poorly-configured WinNT and descendants (2K, 2K3, XP).  
> 
> There is no defense when it comes to XP as the first user created is 
> root by default, and there is no indicator that this is the case.  Since 
> the majority of XP machines are one user machines, the majority of them 
> are in fact running as root.
> 
> 


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