Windows is safer when not using admin rights

Windows 7 is safer when the admin isn't around: "

Not that we necessarily needed a report to tell us this, but the fewer privileges you afford yourself as a Windows user, the more secure your operating system becomes. The report looks into vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft during 2009 and concludes that all 55 reported Microsoft Office issues and 94 percent of the 33 listed for IE could be prevented by simply running a standard user account.

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This article is a great reinforcement to the structure of SU's computing environment. We do not place restrictions on users without cause, if we could mitigate vulnerabilities without removal of rights we would much rather do so.

It is also important to point out that out dated operating systems like Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 (and even Vista) are more vulnerable than Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008.