Re: Of mice and men

> Someone could download something, install something as a root user
and be

Not if they are not told the root password.

> _totally_ oblivious to the fact that now their machine has a security
hole.

The difference is that with Windows you don't need root password, or
even to know that anything was installed, let alone deliberately
installing.

For example there was a vulnerability that would install a startup
program merely by using the mouse on a scroll bar (fixed in SP2
apparently).

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