Hi Teddy, > Do you know that there are security features for Windows also? > I am not talking about Windows 9X systems, of course. > I am using Windows 2000 and you can set an NTFS partition with more rights > for each folder or file than under Linux. > You can log in as another user with less rights to delete or edit files and > a virus will have the same rights like you, like in Linux. I must disagree with this statement. There is a well-known vulnerability in NT/2K that allows you to gain local admin priviledges by writing a specific value to a specific memory location. It is fairly well documented and most sites that deal with exploits for M.S. os's should be able to provide the location and sample code to actually exploit the flaw. M.S. released a patch, but it just shifted the memory location, which was found again. Bottom line, as long as they use a memory flag that can be accessed by "user space" programs (to use the unix/Linux term) they will continue to be insecure against anything with "local" access. Cecil
