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The most secure OS named windows (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Most Windows Programs running with root access is like, I don't know... Windows XP era maybe?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Windows ME was the last edition to make this assumption. NT was never like that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

UAC was introduced with vista, IIRC in xp any program would inherit the privileges of the user running them

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