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wow, ya think? the sad thing is...

SonofaSailor 30th Mar 2010

people will still continue to login as an admin, whether due to lack of awareness, just plain laziness, or the thinking of 'it will never happen to me. I'm still in awe of my boss's (the 'senior' network admin for our company) comments about his work laptop w/ win7: "I'm not concerned with the risks...i'm the network administrator and i'm smart enough not to click on a link or attachment to get a virus on my machine; which is why my account is an admin, and i've turned off UAC." (we were discussing a problem installing a program on 7, first I asked if he's logged in as admin, his reply was I'm logged as my normal account...I'm a local admin on this pc, w/ UAC turned off. Of course I raised objection with this)

But, this is the same guy that doesn't see the problem with browsing the internet (facebook, whatever) on domain controllers, while setting his cup of coffee on shelves at the top of our server racks.

I'm not being facetious, this kind of $hit really goes on at some places...scary.