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 User Account Type, Limited User save from virus/spyware ?

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watcher
post Jan 4 2007, 03:27 PM

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NOPE, not really. D whole idea of d multi-user profile is 'isolate' 1 user's preference/setting/customization of Windows & it's docuements /data files from 1 & another.

As such, using d multi-user profile feature provides onli very, very slight or NO extra protection from viruses/malwares etc. as all users still shares d same installation of Windows. So if dat installation of Windows get infected bcoz of 1 user, d other users would be 'pulled-in' as well. sad.gif However, data files & specific user installed apps maybe 'temporarily' spare das they r encrypted (provided u r using user password & NTFS) BUT it's a matter of time, sooner / later it may likely 2 get infected by EXE & macro based viruses which infect those types of files. sweat.gif

 

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