cmendla - 3:19 pm on Jul 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

If you are running wintel, especially XP, I've had real good luck with running as a limited user instead of an administrator. One of my machines is always logged on as a limited user. If I have any doubts at all about a site, I hit it from that machine.

When you run as a limited user, any malicious software might get downloaded but windoze doesn't give it the rights to install itself.

One problem is that one of the major antivirus apps doesn't like to run on machines with limited users. It will give you all kinds of errors. Their tech support's answer is 'run as an admin'. Yeah, and I'll put pennies in my fusebox.

Anyway, fwiw, I've found the limited user accounts to be **almost** (nothing is ever perfect) impervious to attack

Chris