Running as standard user for mB
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Since Vista, I have converted quite a few residential and micro business to stop running their PC's as Administrators. Oblivious the situations in SMB and mB are totally different, but I still strongly feel running as an Administrator is a bad thing.
What are your thoughts for mB and residential (I know you peeps don't like these guys) and running as Administrator?
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I would never run as an admin at home. I don't see business side or residential as being factors in a fundamental best practice like that.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I would never run as an admin at home. I don't see business side or residential as being factors in a fundamental best practice like that.
I figured you would agree with that!
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There's no difference. The admin account shouldn't be the same account used for regular daily use.
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Here is an article on exactly that...
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2011/04/why-it-pros-home-computers-are-different/
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UAC was supposed to fix some of the admin concerns , but users that didnt understand the reasoning behind UAC just simply turn it off.
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@IRJ said:
UAC was supposed to fix some of the admin concerns , but users that didnt understand the reasoning behind UAC just simply turn it off.
It's another layer. Just as AV doesn't allow you to turn off the firewall, UAC adds to not being admin rather than making being admin okay. I think a lot of people think that UAC justifies them being sloppy.
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Definitely never let anyone use their system as the administrator. Just bad practice.
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Absolutely no admin accounts for users. Not even home users if you can help it.
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Well I can tell none of you here work for shoddy programmers! LOL.
You know the ones that tell you to give everyone admin rights and turn off the UAC and you might want to get rid of your antivirus cuz our program doesn't work with it.
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@technobabble said:
Well I can tell none of you here work for shoddy programmers! LOL.
You know the ones that tell you to give everyone admin rights and turn off the UAC and you might want to get rid of your antivirus cuz our program doesn't work with it.
Well they might get approval, but they would look incredible incompetent to good management.
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Where do you run into SMB programmers these days?
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Over the last 4 years, I had Quickbooks and Medware tell me the above.
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@technobabble said:
Over the last 4 years, I had Quickbooks and Medware tell me the above.
Oh vendors, not programmers. Buying bad products isn't what you said. You said "working for."
No, as an IT AppRiver I would never allow corporate data in something so amateur and unsafe as QB.
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Yes, I should have said vendors! Some of the smaller vendors let you speak to the programmers which can be quite painful.
