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Hi!
I recently got a virus infection.
Think i got it from opening a mail.
My antivirus did not block it in time.

Anyway, have reformatted it.
As now is a new system, was initially thinking of setting this account to ONLY guest group.
As then this will NOT allow me ( guest account ) to write into registry and stuff like that.

I heard that some apps needs "write" access and was wondering if anyone can point the direction to me which are the ones needed.
Maybe like normal.dot? or something like that.

This computer is for office use.
So it wont be "installing" any apps very often.

Please advice.
Cheers!
Darence

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Rich Rumble

The Principal of least privilege can be hard to adjust to. There are tools like RunAs built into M$ win2k, XP, 2003, that will help you with this. When a program, like a setup.exe or setup.msi need to be run with a higher privilege, you can use runas to give that app admin rights so it can install or run. There are many games and other software that need to write to certain directories or to the registry that can't because the group the account is in doesn't have a high enough priv, runas will allow you to remain logged in as the same user, but run the app as a different user. I have a runas script that allows you to drag and drop a setup.exe for example on to the .vbs (or vbe if you encrypt the .vbs). The password is stored in the script itself, or you can simply use runas by right-clicking the program and select runas, then enter "administrator (or whatever admin account you'd like to use) then the password" or you can use runas from the command line.
http://www.xinn.org/RunasVBS.html
Here are some great tips and programs that can also help! http://nonadmin.editme.com/
http://nonadmin.editme.com/sudoWn
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143653&package_id=157780&release_id=427299
http://launch-admin.sourceforge.net/
http://nonadmin.editme.com/UsefulTools
http://richrumble.blogspot.com/2006/08/anti-admin-vs-anti-virus.html
-rich