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The point I guess is that the best software and security settings won't protect you if a site manages to trick you into overriding them.

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Limited users can't install plug-ins.

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Yes I know. I quit running as power user or admin routinely after that. I still have an account with admin rights (minus what group policies take away), but I don't use it unless I need it.

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Can you elaborate on what sort of threat this is to the home user who does use their admin account routinely? [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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Classic example, hopefully obvious to most who peruse CTH - those fake pop-ups that claim you have registry errors / spyware infestations. Click here to repair, it claims to install fix, instead installs malware to infest your comp. OK to it's prompts = owned computer [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]