Re: How vulnerable is a 'Limited" account on XP?

From: xenophi1e <oliver.lavery(at)sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 14:32:32 EDT

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 Please don't infect your system with viruses. That's not a good idea.

A limited account on XP is very much like a limited account on any other OS. It is somewhat secure, but as soon as you have access to a machine that machine has been opened up to local priviledge elevation vulnerabilities.

If Windows doesn't contain any of these holes, then it seems to follow that a limited account should be secure. However these vulnerabilities are pretty common on other platforms and who knows, there might be a few buried in windows somewhere.

Cheers,
~ol

>I've been wondering: are there exploits/vulnerabilities that can burrow
around
>a little bit [but I'm really not very much of an XP-hacker] and it sure
vulnerable
>XP is... [for example, I"ve been tempted (but too chicken) to try
Received on Fri Jul 11 14:24:59 2003