That’s not a promise, just a generalization. That means instead of doing something bad to you that could succeed they try to do something worse that can’t and they crash doing nothing. Hence, you cannot become part of a botnet and this is a very good thing.įurthermore, most commodity attacks for Windows go straight for installing a rootkit without passing Go. Rogue usermode binaries cannot be installed and neither can drivers be installed. For example, if you got hit with a zero-day browser flaw the worst (and this is very bad) thing that can happen is to have your personal data stolen or corrupted. One of the main advantages of running with a limited user account (LUA) is that binaries in Program Files where they are protected from tampering by something malicious that you might accidentally invoke. However, if you are a non-Admin user it is a graphical just-in-time way to change the security of a running process by giving it Administrator credentials. And finally with Windows Vista, we get UAC which, is nothing more than a speedbump warning system if you are an Administrator. That’s where Aaron Margolis’s excellent makemeadmin script comes in. With Windows 2000, things got a lot better with the runas service ( like su(1) on UNIX) but there were still some painful quirks because, for example, some software expects to be installed by the same admin user account that is using it. There were tweaks you could make to dial back the security for some little things like creating a security role that could change the system date and time (which allows you to open the old-style date and time applet by clicking on the taskbar clock). I used to have to log out and log in as an “Administrator” to install software or make system changes. I have run my workstation as a “User” without admin rights for over 12 years since the days when I started running NT4 on my laptop. ProcExp has some quirks when running on 圆4 Windows, though. It keeps presents a full range of stats on every process including memory consumption and CPU time, loaded DLLs and open handle, strings embedded in the binary, environmental variables defined for the process, the full arguments used to start the process and nifty tools to find a process or a handle and a handy restart process. It give a ton of information about processes running on your computer. Process Explorer by Mark Russinovich is a great improvement over the Task Manager program that ships with Windows.
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