Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score 1)

Just because a program runs in user-space doesn't mean it wont have access to priviledged system calls. Other than the mis-guided folks using kernel-mode linux apps (which is stupid), most applications run in user-space, and make system calls to do their admin-type things. An application run as root (and similarly admin on windows) has the ability to do virtually anything as far as the kernel is concerned. The only reason why you can't break stuff with out getting at least some kind of warning is because the user-space application had warning written into it by the developers. And unfortunately, IE doesn't have much in the way of warnings when it is about to do something potentially dangerous.