For IT administrators, and ambulatory IT users, it is a known fact that there is a good idea to have full administrator rights on the ordinary user accounts.
Nevertheless, there are many sins. Are you among those who find it troublesome to switch account, every little change in the operating system, software installation or upgrade?
If so, it might be worth looking more closely at what risk you expose your computer for ...
It is trite, but the whole 90 percent of all known vulnerabilities in Windows 7 can be easily avoided. All it takes is to use operating system with regular user access.
It appears from a report (PDF) written by the security company BeyondTrust.
According to the survey, all the security holes in Office and Internet Explorer 8, which was known last year to be safe for those with normal user access. Taking with older IE versions, one is protected against 94 percent of vulnerabilities.
Without admin rights you should be able to avoid 64 percent of the vulnerabilities in all Microsoft products that were uncovered in the same period.
BeyondTrust analyzed nearly 75 security reports that Microsoft published last year. These covered about 200 different vulnerabilities.
