Default location when drive removed

[Hacker]

Phred,

when something has remote root access to your machine(s), not only could your backup generations contain corrupted, un-noticed, photos and documents going back years (viewed wedding photos lately..?), but you could be inadvertently funding someone else's crypto-currency mining electricity demands, acting as a bot in a DDoS flood, sitting as an identifiable node in criminal activity. etc etc

You don't need admin rights for any of that.

Roman

[Horst.Epp]

Phred,

when something has remote root access to your machine(s), not only could your backup generations contain corrupted, un-noticed, photos and documents going back years (viewed wedding photos lately..?), but you could be inadvertently funding someone else's crypto-currency mining electricity demands, acting as a bot in a DDoS flood, sitting as an identifiable node in criminal activity. etc etc

You don't need admin rights for any of that.

Roman

Thats right for some viruses or trojans but not for all of them.
But doing nothing and always working as Admin is not the solution to solve todays security problems.

[Hacker]

Horst.Epp,

Thats right for some viruses or trojans but not for all of them.

Those that need admin rights either request them specifically or do something out of the above mentioned scope.

doing nothing and always working as Admin is not the solution to solve todays security problems

I understand and accept the general idea behind this notion

Roman

[Phred]

So say we all.
Well, almost... now we have to talk to Author Ghisler about \totalcmd

(Inhibiting admin privileges, while not eliminating all likely attacks, greatly reduces the 'attack surface' and deters attempts to exploit, I think we could all agree. Almost all.)