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Report: Windows 7 Holes Eased By Axing Admin Rights
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Posted by Donster on: 2010-03-29 15:59:59 268
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By Elinor Mills @ CNET News
Ninety percent of critical Microsoft Windows 7 vulnerabilities can be mitigated by configuring the operating system for standard user rather than administrator, according to a new report released on Monday.
Removing administrator rights would also protect against exploitation of all of the Office holes reported last year, 94 percent of Internet Explorer flaws and 100 percent of IE 8 flaws reported last year, and 64 percent of all Microsoft vulnerabilities reported in that time period, according to BeyondTrust's 2009 Microsoft Vulnerability Analysis (PDF).
There are trade-offs to removing administrator rights. For instance, standard users typically can't install software and use applications that require elevated privileges, said Saurabh Bhatnagar, vice president of product management at BeyondTrust.
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