[CS-FSLUG] Apple's Big Virus

[David Aikema]

Why would you have to logged in as administrator to be infected?  The
damage the virus could do might be confined to the areas of the system
to which the user had write access, but a large number of PCs are
basically single-user machines in any case.

If access to my account were to be compromised, I'd probably reinstall
the OS anyways, so to me this isn't all that much different.

David

On 5/1/05, "國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)" <survivor at brisnet.org> wrote:
> Well, U might be right there, but it's very likely that you'd have to be
> logged on as an administrator to get infected.  Windows XP is
> different.  Many of my users have complained to me about applications
> not running correctly when they're not logged on as a local
> administrator.   And when you're logged on as a local administrator all
> the time, the risk is there.