In addition to my informal poll about
running
as Admin here on my blog, I've been running a similar poll on the home page
of http://www.graymad.com.
So far, the results are not encouraging. A full 70% of those who
have responded to the poll say that they run as Admin "Always". 20% run as admin
"Rarely", and only 10% "never" run as Admin. Surely we, as a community, can do
better than this.
So I'm going to re-issue my challenge...how about some help from my fellow
dotnetweblogs.com bloggers? If you're running day-to-day using an Admin account,
try for a week running without Admin privileges. I know it's possible, and it's
not all that difficult. Let's try to set a good example for the developer
community, and do our part to increase security for everyone!
For those who missed it, Keith Brown of DevelopMentor has an excellent
article on this topic that was recommended to me by
Anil John. I've
been using his suggestion of keeping a command prompt opened using an Admin
account, and that's definitely made life as a non-Admin much
easier.