Surfing with User privileges

Apparently a person cannot use these newsgroups operating their computer
without administrator privileges. Just now I tried to post a new message
with only limited privileges and could not get the dialog box for writing the
new post to come up. This limitation hinders good security practice. I
turned on the â??allow pop-ups from this siteâ?? but that didnâ??t work, and I
turned on â??temporarily allow pop-ups from this siteâ?? but that didnâ??t do it
either!

In our home and business we are trying to use our computers with limited
privileges more and more, to protect the current Windows setup and avoid
spyware and adware. If programs used daily wonâ??t operate properly with these
limited rights it makes operation frustrating.

Russ

Pandaman
Sat Jan 28 07:09:26 CST 2006

They usually operate correctly.At our firm we also use limited user accounts
for those guys that don't know what are doing and it's all fine.

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"Russ" wrote:

> Apparently a person cannot use these newsgroups operating their computer
> without administrator privileges. Just now I tried to post a new message
> with only limited privileges and could not get the dialog box for writing the
> new post to come up. This limitation hinders good security practice. I
> turned on the â??allow pop-ups from this siteâ?? but that didnâ??t work, and I
> turned on â??temporarily allow pop-ups from this siteâ?? but that didnâ??t do it
> either!
>
> In our home and business we are trying to use our computers with limited
> privileges more and more, to protect the current Windows setup and avoid
> spyware and adware. If programs used daily wonâ??t operate properly with these
> limited rights it makes operation frustrating.
>
> Russ
>

Kerry
Sat Jan 28 08:39:55 CST 2006

Russ wrote:
> Apparently a person cannot use these newsgroups operating their
> computer without administrator privileges. Just now I tried to post
> a new message with only limited privileges and could not get the
> dialog box for writing the new post to come up. This limitation
> hinders good security practice. I turned on the "allow pop-ups from
> this site" but that didn't work, and I turned on "temporarily allow
> pop-ups from this site" but that didn't do it either!
>
> In our home and business we are trying to use our computers with
> limited privileges more and more, to protect the current Windows
> setup and avoid spyware and adware. If programs used daily won't
> operate properly with these limited rights it makes operation
> frustrating.
>

While I agree it is ironic that you can't use the web interface without
admin privileges the best way to view these newsgroups is with a newsreader.
Outlook Express works fine. The server is msnews.microsoft.com. This group
is microsoft.public.security.

Kerry

Roger
Sat Jan 28 10:35:43 CST 2006

You may want to post your comment/inquiry into one of the IE newsgroups
as I suspect that it is a switch in the IE security configuration other than
the
ones you have tried/mentioned that may be set a little too conservatively.

If the entire world had the same issue more would have certainly pointed
out the sad irony also before now.


"Russ" <Russ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:55916096-BFF3-400B-AA53-FFE0C12D7A94@microsoft.com...
> Apparently a person cannot use these newsgroups operating their computer
> without administrator privileges. Just now I tried to post a new message
> with only limited privileges and could not get the dialog box for writing
> the
> new post to come up. This limitation hinders good security practice. I
> turned on the "allow pop-ups from this site" but that didn't work, and I
> turned on "temporarily allow pop-ups from this site" but that didn't do it
> either!
>
> In our home and business we are trying to use our computers with limited
> privileges more and more, to protect the current Windows setup and avoid
> spyware and adware. If programs used daily won't operate properly with
> these
> limited rights it makes operation frustrating.
>
> Russ
>

alun
Sun Jan 29 17:00:08 CST 2006

In article <55916096-BFF3-400B-AA53-FFE0C12D7A94@microsoft.com>,
"=?Utf-8?B?UnVzcw==?=" <Russ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Apparently a person cannot use these newsgroups operating their computer
>without administrator privileges. Just now I tried to post a new message
>with only limited privileges and could not get the dialog box for writing the
>new post to come up. This limitation hinders good security practice.

I'm confused - I've been posting through the discussion interface at the
Microsoft web site for some time from a restricted user account. Currently,
I'm posting through a newsgroup reader, and that works too.

What are you using?

It's possible that there's a simpler explanation - maybe a pop-up blocker...

Alun.
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