Press Articles

Press articles that mention running as a non-administrator, latest first

• "Simple, Safer, Free", by Erik Larkin of PC World, 5/31/2006 
• "Can Microsoft Make Vista Less Annoying?", by Ryan Naraine of eWeek, 5/6/06
• "Microsoft may restrict its workers' PC rights", by Munir Kotadia of ZDNet, 5/23/06
• "Security feature in Microsoft's new Windows could drive users nuts", by Byron Acohido of USA TODAY, 5/15/06
• "End-User Fulough", by Andrew Garcia of eWEEK, 3/20/06
• "Least Privilege User Accounts On Windows XP", by Mark Joseph Edwards of Windows IT Pro, 1/06
• "UAC Team Answers Your Questions", by Josh Phillips of Windows Connected, 1/22/06.
• "Tone Down UAC, Or Consolidate?", by Nathan Weinberg of Inside Microsoft, 12/28/05. Discusses the early implementation of User Account Control (UAC, aka UAP, aka LUA, aka non-admin) in Windows Vista, and in particular the number of annoying popups it causes. Based on original blog post by Ed Bott.
• "A Better Windows Permission Model", by Larry Seltzer of eWEEK, 12/19/2005. "Opinion: Microsoft is moving at glacial speed to a better user/application security model, but an even better one is available now from a third party."
• "Microsoft Readies New 'Buglight' Security Aid", by Mary Jo Foley of eWEEK, 12/15/05. Concentrates on Buglight, first mentioned in the article below.
• "Mr. LUA Goes to Washington", by Ryan Naraine of eWEEK, 12/14/05. Covers Aaron Margosis's presentation at Microsoft's Security Summit East, and the problem of how to make LUA part of a developer's mindset.
• The SANS newsletter introduces a new section, Application Hall of Shame, 12/6/05. The first inductee is Intuits QuickBooks, for violating least-admin principles - for more about QuickBooks, see Known Problems.
• "Is System Lockdown the Secret Weapon", by Andrew Garcia of the Channel Insider, 11/28/05. eWEEK Labs visited the same dodgy web sites with three different sets of privileges. The non-admin PC survived intact, while both the power user and the administrator ended up with 19 malwares each - multiple infections, hundreds of new files, and thousands of registry keys changed!
• "Windows Users Ignoring LUA Security", slashdot followup to Ryan's article, 6/22/05
• "Users Overlook XP's Non-Admin Security", by Ryan Naraine of eWEEK, 6/22/05
• "Longhorn's lengthy security wish list", by Robyn Lorusso of SearchWindowsSecurity.com, 6/21/05
• "A Windows XP Security Tip", by Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post, 3/13/05
• "'Least Privilege' Can Be the Best", by David Coursey of eWEEK, 3/3/05