Administrator or Limited User Account

I admire everyone who's discovered LUA is effective. There are plenty of methods + apps that help us in this quest to keep garbage intrusions from useless to bare minimum.

Tack on a few support personnel like HIPS/Sandboxes/Virtuals and things are pretty well sealed up while at the same time not restricting normal routine activities you enjoy.

 

I am liking it Easter. I am using the SuRun app with it now and am very happy with it so far. Being one who likes to tweak and fiddle I found LUA too much of a PITA with having to switch back and forth accounts to do anything but this SuRun eliminates that for the most part. Like you said, with LUA you could probably cut back on the security apps and discover more speed.

 

More and more LUA. Just as an extra margin of safety.

 

Same here.

The SuRun program has completely renewed my own confidence that there is now a more efficient & convenient way to run in LUA and choose to elevate on-the-fly by context menu certains apps to start them as needed and flip-flop back to Limited again.

Really engenious creation IMO.

 

At that time I sometimes looked into the mirror and asked myself: "Am I really nuts?" In the majority of cases I came to the conclusion: "No, I'm not!" Now I'm relieved that this impression seems to find some confirmation ...

 

The newest version of SuRun works also in Vista but you should disable UAC. Just start anything within a limited account with SuRun and you won't be bothered with any popups anymore. I find it much more convenient than UAC which is no longer needed.

Or does anybody know if there is a setting to disable UAC only for a limited account and keep it enabled in the admin account?

 

Where can I download SuRun?

 

See https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=196737

 

I prefer using Admin in Win and just a few basic security apps. LUA/SRP is interesting, but not quite as convenient. I am not that worried about malware anyway......

 

Well, I've dropped DropMyRights/Admin in favor of SuRun/LUA. SuRun is very slick.

 

I still run under Admin account. Mainly because I find this the easiest, but also because I'm not too familiar with how to set up a LUA (and using it in the appropriate way).

 

This thread should help.

 

Thanks tlu. The program itself is in German? Won't this cause conflicts with native Win XP configs (mine is Dutch for example)?

 

As mentioned in the first post in that thread, the languages available in SuRun are German, English and Polish.

No, it shouldn't. Post #34 in that thread shows the easiest way how to setup everything.

 

I run an Admin account on XP. I find it much more convenient to work with just one account. Have had no problems since XP was released.

 

Have you ever seriously tried following the recommendations given above?

 

hahaha, my prophecy is true up to 80% won´t go away from admin account.

Not really.. lool

 

Some questions ..

I use Opera 99% of the time and have most of my internet facing
applications launched from within Opera with DropMyRights, including
IE, SmartFtp, Outlook Express. They all inherit the LUA provided by
DMR as they are child processes of Opera which itself is launched
with DMR. This also covers apps. like Quicktime Player (QTAlt.), and
Media Player Classic when visiting sites like Apple movies etc.
Process explorer confirms this .. ('Deny')
I suppose this setup is better than nothing, but, judging from
other posts not as good as creating a LUA a/c in Windows or
using SuRun... ? On ascale of 1-10 how good is it ?

If I want to switch to SuRun do I first have to create a LUA a/c
in Windows (Home XP) ? At the moment I am running as administrator
with no p/word.
Fortunately I am dual-booting with Ubuntu Linux and use Ubuntu about 80%
of the time, thus cutting down on my internet exposure through Windows.

 

10, of course, especially if combined with a SRP as described here

See post #34 in this thread.

Same here.

 

Surprised at the good marks you awarded - despite no SRP.
Your posts are very interesting and useful (also 10/10), but I
think SRP with Home XP as described will be rather energy sapping
(should have got XP Pro back in Oct.2001).
For now I will just incrementally increase my Ubuntu CPU time from
currently 80% until I get to 100% ..

 

Ah - sorry! I had obviously read your post too fast and misunderstood what you meant. My judgement was for LUA. DMR would be a 5.

Thanks a lot!

Why do you think so? It takes only some minutes to implement it in XP Home.

Yes, Kubuntu has become my main OS, too. I'm using my XP Pro only rarely. However, there is one very important application for which I haven't found a Linux alternative. That's why I'm running XP Home in a Virtualbox VM when needed.

 

Agreed setting up LUA is easy peasy -- I meant the installation of pcwGPinst
in order to implement SRP in XP Home, that's why I lamented not having
got (insisted on) XP Pro when I had the chance way back then.

Will do the LUA later this week.

 

Admin, don't see the point of limiting yourself in any way.

 

Read this, and you will see.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb456992.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/pages/TOC.aspx

 

I meant that, too! All you need is SP2 so that the script can extract the missing files, copy them to your system32 folder and register them. That takes only a few minutes.