XPost: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
From: waiting@the.exit.invalid
"Mayayana" wrote in
news:ja493p$rqt$1@dont-email.me:
>| I don't fully understand (nor want to unless it is
>| imperative) what permissions are, I always use FAT32
>| because I see no point whatsoever in using
>| NTFS.
>
> Permissions/restrictions is the operation of limited
> functionality for different user categories. Are you sure
> you're not on NTFS?
Of course I'm sure.
> If you're on FAT32 the restrictions
> don't function. (Right-click -> Properties on a file will
> not have a tab for adjusting restrictions.)
Correct. I was wondering what y'all was talking about.
So, setting up the limited account was a waste of time, or
should I try to understand how you can DL stuff while running
all your internet apps in Sandboxie, or... ?
>| But do you mean flash player plugins or flash player
>| altogether?
>|
>
> As long as it's not connected to the browser it doesn't
> really matter whether the library is present. If the
> browser can play flash content you're at risk.
Well, I try to do as little flash as possible. The one thing I
don't like about the latest Opera is there is no "flash
on/off" box you can put on the toolbar. Although there
probably is, I just haven't found it yet - opera config is a
little hairy, and I was using 10USB until 10 days ago, all set
up nice.
Speaking of Flash - are the latest AV programs (like my ESET
NOD32) capable of finding malware in them, or do they just
skip them, like they skip avi and jpg (and other) files... ?
>| You might want to take a look at the one I use. I can post
>| it for you somewhere if you can't find it. (Since it's not
>| ZoneAlarm, the older versions are not easily found.) I
>| don't see how "block most/stealth" mode can be any less
>| efective now than it was in 2002.
>|
>
> Maybe I will check that out. But why did you choose v. 1?
> The old version websites seem to have several, up to 3.5.
I tried a later version and it was considerably more insane,
plus it is not free and if I tried to buy it, they would tell
me I have to buy the latest 250MB version. I suppose I could
just do an Acronis restore every 28 days, but I really like
ver 1. All this is sufficiently overwhelming for now.
>| I appreciate your reply, especially since I was so nasty
>| to you about your utility. Or did you just forget all
>| about that? ;-)
>|
>
> Not a big deal.
Thank you, and I apologize. I get a little nuts sometimes.
Short circuits in the old gulliver.
>| So, again, with FAT32 I don't NEED a limited account?
>|
>
> With FAT32 you can't have a limited account.
Well, I do have it. I can post a grab of the logon screen for
you.
This is all very confusing. I have 3 accounts: admin,
Administrator [I believe this is the hidden super acount](both
of these have full control, but only admin shows up in the
logon screen), and internet, which /is/ limited.
XP Home SP3, BTW. I don't know if this makes any difference. I
tried XP Pro but it was too insane for me. Messing with the
group policy sort of did me in... It's not avail. in TweakUI
running under XPHome, and a good thing, too.
Plus, I was silly enough to think Home might NOT have 3
accounts in Doc&Set no matter what. Alas...
--
What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your
loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must
be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and
every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to
you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will
again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!'
Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse
that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything
more divine'?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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