Avoid operating as Admin in Windows

“100 percent of Microsoft Office flaws and 94 percent of Internet Explorer flaws” are not affective if the user is not an admin, according to a report by” BeyondTrust“. Ars Technica has an article reviewing this report, with statistics demonstrating what I’ve been suggesting to my customers for years. That many Windows security flaws and vulnerbilities can be avoided by not running as admin or with any account that has administrative privledges.

Although the number of vulnerabilities are lower on a Macintosh, I encourage the same rule on that operating system as well.

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