64% of MS Vulnerabilities Caused by Running with Admin Rights
Most of us here on [H] should know this already, but we need to spread the gospel of this and UAC to all of our friends and families so we don't keep getting woken up early in the morning with tech support calls!
Most of us here on [H] should know this already, but we need to spread the gospel of this and UAC to all of our friends and families so we don't keep getting woken up early in the morning with tech support calls!
"Breaking it down per product, the figures become even more interesting. Microsoft reported 55 Office vulnerabilities in 2009, and all of them are mitigated by removing admin rights. Of the 33 Internet Explorer issues reported, 94% were thwarted by removing admin rights. For Internet Explorer 8, 100% would be. If we restrict the vulnerabilities to just Windows, we see that 53% can be mitigated by not running as admin."
