A recent report of the British security company called Avecto security firm released by the 2014 Microsoft released the 240 and fix security vulnerabilities, more than 97% with administrator privileges to be use related. Meanwhile, the company recommends that users are the first to make use of the standard user account in order to fully guarantee the security of the system.
Avecto said its statistics on the Windows key vulnerabilities statistics, more than 98 percent of the exploits of the administrator privileges. In other words, only 2% of the intruder or hacker attacks using different ways. When the proportion will rise after the computer is connected to Internet Explorer, 99.5% with administrator privileges related vulnerabilities, so should choose to use a computer not under the administrator account, if possible, or even disable the Guest account.
Statistics also show that remote code execution exploit users are most concerned about is the problem, because many hackers choose to malicious files onto the user's computer, and further to obtain full control. Avecto said that in this case the attack is very requires administrator privileges, but 90% of users simply switch the system to a standard user account can be solved.
"These statistics will serve as a warning, the importance of business users to delete the account administrator privileges self-evident at the time of setting up your office computer."
As we all know, the administrator account on the computer to provide the greatest degree of control. Whether you use a Microsoft account (email address and password) or a local account (username and password), when first started using computers are likely to create such an account.However, in order to prevent security breaches and attacks make significant changes to the system to switch to a standard account is indeed the easiest solution.
Avecto also said that Microsoft's Windows system, the lack of advanced security measures, operational execution and standard mode administrator account can perform difficult. On Linux systems to perform the same task after just provide the root password to install software or updates can perform operations, and in the standard Windows user account must completely exit, switch to an administrator account.
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