Re: Need help w/BootX icon

In article
<noneof-C90773.18343711052008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mark Conrad <noneof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <jollyroger-C9B734.12474711052008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <michelle-C65EFF.10085811052008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <110520081236313793%its@xxxxxxx>, Bleuler <its@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Thanks again. What (hypothetical) Stuff are we talking about? I mean
even accepting that it's possible, yea perhaps even desirable, to run
one's puter under a different account, I'm still unclear as to the
dangers posed by running as single account/owner/admin.

They believe that if you run under an admin account, malware can take
over the computer.

You've been here this long, and that's the only thing you've taken away
from it? Tsk tsk...

"They" believe more than just that. If you run as admin, you can damage
the system yourself - no malware needed. And you make it *easier* for
malware to damage your system as well. And "they" would be correct in
that belief.

I run as administrator 100% of the time, for years on end,
delving into the guts of my OS, plus the guts of my Vista partition
on my MacBook Pro, doing such things as "combined" backups of both
the OS X and Vista partitions.
(snip)
I am in no way advocating operating carelessly as I do,
just merely relating the fact that no malware has been
encountered by me in years of operating in this fashion.

Apparently you didn't read this sentence very carefully:

"If you run as admin, you can damage the system yourself - no malware
needed."

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