Re: help me understand how a Mac is virtually immune to viruses?

In article <tkuls1t9tl7uico85lcnvpsn709qbo6s4g@xxxxxxx>, Chris L
Peterson <clp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was hoping for a more constructive comment. I honestly know of no Mac
> environments, single or multiple user, where the users have full
> administrative privileges in normal use.

Now you do. I am a user of multple single-user single account Macs.
When you set up a new Mac, you set up a default admin account.
Otherwise, every user would be required to have two accounts on his Mac
just so he'd have one that would allow him to install software. Some
people advise this very strategy, but I haven't seen the need.

--
Joe Bergeron

http://www.joebergeron.com
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