Re: [PLUG] Linux Virus Writing HOWTO

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 11:56, Jeff Dean wrote:
> It's likely that many companies deploy NT/2K/XP with full privs for the 
> user.  

Not at the bigger companies, no.

> Where I work, the users' domain accounts are added to the local 
> admin group.  The culture there expects that everyone is a local admin.  We 
> also have lots of '9x around the LAN.  So, NT security is only for 
> servers.  Too bad for IT but great for virus writers...

Same at my place.

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