XP Home and Pro both give any users entered during setup Admin
access.
"Any user not running FW or AV" is overrated. A router does a
fine job of providing one with a hardware firewall (although as
hackable as any other firewall), and you could get by without AV
software if you know exactly what you're doing on the web as
long as you have a firewall. Of course, I would recommend that
99.9% of Windows users have both.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> I believe this is with the Home Edition only, but I may be
> wrong. Home
> >> basically ignores the normal user/administrator
> distinction.
> >> Fortunately,
> >> Home's a lot less common, even in the home.
> >
> > What metrics were used to come to this last conclusion?
>
> Just from experience and word on the net. It's entirely
> non-scientific,
> but my experience is that a lot of families/people wipe Home
> and end up
> installing XP Pro, usually pirated, of course.
>
> I could be entirely wrong. Anyone know a good home OS usage
> graph?
>
> Any home user not running a firewall and antivirus software on
> a Windows
> box, either doesn't care very much about that Windows box, or
> likes the
> wild life. Cripes, even my grandma got ZoneAlarm and installed
> it on her
> own.
>
> /jgw
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