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Microsoft can always be expected to duck under your lowest expectation.
Let us always remember that Gates would flunk an exam in basic...let along any real programming language.
He was a brilliant businessman (why think when you can purchase/copy/steal)?
As any sort of a technical type, he’s as dumb as the Obamadork.
And his successor is worse in every respect.
“If this user has administrative rights, the attacker might be able to get complete control over the system. “
And there’s the key to the ONLY way to even partially secure your system: perform your work only from a limited/standard account and use an administrative account ONLY for administrative activities like installing/uninstalling/upgrading software or hardware.
Unfortunately, all login accounts on Windows have full administrative privileges by default and sometimes it can be a bit difficult to setup a limited account and effectively use it, since a few old/stupid programs won’t work properly under a limited account.
Also, if there’s an existing account, it’s best to make a new, administrative account and convert the existing account to limited. Furthermore, all bets are off for this strategy to work well on XP without a great deal more work because Microsoft really screwed the pooch for the way the system does ownership and ACL permissions for the Windows and Program Files folders and their contents.
Firefox has turned into it’s own chunk spewing POS.
IE bites. It always has. Likewise, the current IE9 TV commercial may be the most obnoxious ad running.
I recommend using the latest version of FireFox (and Linux).