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TOR Wants You To Stop Using Windows, Disable JavaScript 341

itwbennett writes "The TOR Project is advising that people stop using Windows after the discovery of a startling vulnerability in Firefox that undermined the main advantages of the privacy-centered network. The zero-day vulnerability allowed as-yet-unknown interlopers to use a malicious piece of JavaScript to collect crucial identifying information on computers visiting some websites using The Onion Router (TOR) network. 'Really, switching away from Windows is probably a good security move for many reasons,' according to a security advisory posted Monday by The TOR Project."

Comment No local admin by default... (Score 1) 605

We all had local admin rights until about a year ago. Under the new policy, standard user logins do not have local admin rights. If you need to install software, you need to login as a separate poweruser, which in turn disables access to all network resources (drives, printers, etc).

It was a big pain, and people did a lot of bitching and moaning, but slowly we're getting used to it.

There are several options:
1.) logout/login as poweruser
2.) Right-click, do 'Run As'
3.) While running as local user, open a CMD window that's running as poweruser.

-Mark

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