[geeks] filtering out web base trojan?

[Phil Stracchino]

Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:49:22PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>> Does that work? (seriously)
> 
> I had mixed results with XP and non-Administrator users (family PeeCee).
> Most applications worked perfectly, but quite a few games refused to
> install with a non-Administrator user. Not helped by the fact that XP makes
> it a real PITA to switch users for certain applications (a real PITA for
> 'regular' users).

And made worse by the fact thatn in nine out of ten cases, the game 
doesn't NEED administrator privileges; it's just that the company that 
produced the game was lazy.  This is very common with educational games 
- often, not only do they require administrator privilege to install, 
but your kids can't even save games unless you give them write 
privileges to the game install folder because the game designer was just 
too bloody lazy to have the game save in a user-owned folder.



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