Re: Using Mac as Admin
- From: tacit <tacitr@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:59:45 -0400
In article <1ifa42r.v1hor6b5d2qlN%pfjames2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
pfjames2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter James) wrote:
I found out today, that the friend who saves all his files on his
dektop, see different thread, is also using his G5 iMac and the Internet
whilst logged in as Admin. He has no user accounts set up How
dangerous is this?
In theory, folks will tell you that good best practice is to run from a
user account.
In practice, not a big deal. There is at present exactly one piece of
Mac malware in circulation: OSX/RSplug.A -- and running in a user
account will not protect you from it. It's a Trojan horse that pretends
to be a movie player CODEC, and tries to trick the user into installing
it. It can not be installed without a password, regardless of how you
are logged in, and if you log in as a user and are foolish enough to
fall for it, being logged in as user won't save you.
So it depends. In a theoretical sense, some folks do make a religion out
of the notion that you must not use the administrator account daily. In
a practical sense, the risk in doing so is negligible.
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