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Switcher Hangout (Windows to Mac)
Im a pc and need help...
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1005862" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>This by far is the BEST protection that OS X (and Linux) use to protect the user. If you think back to the old Windows 95/98 days, you created a user account, but it didn't really do much and you could install any application as you saw fit..</p><p></p><p>With Windows NT 4.0 and newer version of Windows, the need for admin privs to install application was added, however the problem is that it's an either all on or all off kind of scheme. Paranoid IT admins will usually create user accounts that lack system-level privileges which prevents them from doing much of anything on the system, and doing even the most basic things usually requires the privs that also allow people to end up installing malware/virus and other bad things by mistake.</p><p></p><p>With OS X (and Unix/Linux), you provide a user account System Privs, but the beauty is that when the privs are needed, you are prompted for your password which is a clear indication that you are changing something at the system level and can be immediately stopped if you didn't intend/want to do that..</p><p></p><p>I'm amazed that even Windows 7 doesn't have this sort of a prompt to prevent system level access without a user with system privileges knowing about it..</p><p></p><p>Regards</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1005862, member: 110816"] This by far is the BEST protection that OS X (and Linux) use to protect the user. If you think back to the old Windows 95/98 days, you created a user account, but it didn't really do much and you could install any application as you saw fit.. With Windows NT 4.0 and newer version of Windows, the need for admin privs to install application was added, however the problem is that it's an either all on or all off kind of scheme. Paranoid IT admins will usually create user accounts that lack system-level privileges which prevents them from doing much of anything on the system, and doing even the most basic things usually requires the privs that also allow people to end up installing malware/virus and other bad things by mistake. With OS X (and Unix/Linux), you provide a user account System Privs, but the beauty is that when the privs are needed, you are prompted for your password which is a clear indication that you are changing something at the system level and can be immediately stopped if you didn't intend/want to do that.. I'm amazed that even Windows 7 doesn't have this sort of a prompt to prevent system level access without a user with system privileges knowing about it.. Regards [/QUOTE]
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