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Old July 17th, 2009, 08:47 PM
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Default Probaly discussed at length already .. :)

but just in case it wasn't

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Malwa...y-107726.shtml

I'm not clear on what they mean by root access though ?

Is that just running the windows Admin account ?
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Old July 17th, 2009, 10:07 PM
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Default Re: Probaly discussed at length already .. :)

1) Old News

2) Root is a Unix term for superuser. M$ calls root the "admin" account.

3) 90% of people run Windows as admin all the time, thus making it generally easier to infect.
 

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