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Hi there,
I have been given by my local computer shop a trial of Vista RTM that will
expire in 30 days unless I buy a key.
The two things I find very annoying and breaches security is - the fact that
an administrator account is able to search and access other users' folders.
For instance, I can easily access my brother's administrator user folder
(mine is also an administrator) through the 'Users' folder.
Although we are both administrators, hadn't Microsoft think EVERYBODY needs
their privacy? If one is able to be trusted to have administrator privileges,
one is also entitled to administrator privacy.
I have chat files and other personal data that my snoopy brothers would love
to open and have a read.
My question is, how can I keep all users' privacy without sacrificing
administrator privileges?
Looks Microsoft has put soooo much time into network security that they've
forgotten an important thing - the fact that a thief can get a hold of your
computer and use an administrator account to steal whatever he wishes.
Can anyone please help me? Also, when using the search function, it also
retrieves results from ALL users on the PC, administrator or not.
This is frankly annoying me, and I don't want to go out and buy an $800 NZ
software just so I can have my privacy compromised.
So far this privacy breach is the only thing that is flawed in Vista for me.
And it is flawed enough for me to not buy Vista unless I can get a fix for
this.
Thanks for looking, I hope you can help me.
I have been given by my local computer shop a trial of Vista RTM that will
expire in 30 days unless I buy a key.
The two things I find very annoying and breaches security is - the fact that
an administrator account is able to search and access other users' folders.
For instance, I can easily access my brother's administrator user folder
(mine is also an administrator) through the 'Users' folder.
Although we are both administrators, hadn't Microsoft think EVERYBODY needs
their privacy? If one is able to be trusted to have administrator privileges,
one is also entitled to administrator privacy.
I have chat files and other personal data that my snoopy brothers would love
to open and have a read.
My question is, how can I keep all users' privacy without sacrificing
administrator privileges?
Looks Microsoft has put soooo much time into network security that they've
forgotten an important thing - the fact that a thief can get a hold of your
computer and use an administrator account to steal whatever he wishes.
Can anyone please help me? Also, when using the search function, it also
retrieves results from ALL users on the PC, administrator or not.
This is frankly annoying me, and I don't want to go out and buy an $800 NZ
software just so I can have my privacy compromised.
So far this privacy breach is the only thing that is flawed in Vista for me.
And it is flawed enough for me to not buy Vista unless I can get a fix for
this.
Thanks for looking, I hope you can help me.