Re: Thoughts on Vista

Matt writes:

When the malware doesn't run with admin priveleges, it has many fewer
chances to spread. Very simple concept, but somehow after all these
decades, Microsoft hasn't used it much.

It can't, because a great deal of legacy software requires
unrestricted access to the system.

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