full-disclosure - Windows user privileges

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From: toddtowles at brookshires.com (Todd Towles)
Subject: Windows user privileges

Dell gives the full OS cd and then a separate drivers CD, at least on
the business side. Not sure about the home side. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com 
> [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hoye
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 7:19 AM
> To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Windows user privileges
> 
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 04:19:49PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> > Windows has several groups.  By default users are in the "USERS" 
> > group, *not* the ADMINISTRATORS group.
> 
> On every XP install that I've seen from every major OEM 
> (Dell, Compaq, Gateway, etc) fast user switching is on by 
> default and every user is an administrator. Not "on most"; on 
> every single one.
> 
> Furthermore, these machines don't have actual XP OS install 
> CDs, they usually come with "restore" CDs that just return 
> the PC to this same initial state if they're used, which they 
> almost never are.
> 
> I have never seen a home user, that is to say change that 
> setting or create a user who is actually just a "User". Not 
> once, ever.
> 
> > It might make sense if you actually had knowledge of an OS 
> before you 
> > criticize it.
> 
> I don't think the question should be "why is IRC still 
> around", I think the question should be "why is 
> full-disclosure turning into IRC?"
> 
> - Mike Hoye
>  
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