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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Finding my game
Posts: 423
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Originally Posted by Hawkfan79
While this is good standard advice, it doesn't help most home users a whole lot. For most people, their data is all that really matters. OS/software can be reinstalled. Anything that can only fuck up whatever the user has access to can destroy everything that really matters.
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This is what most users think, because they haven't yet had their identity, credit card and online banking details stolen. Losing the mp3s, family photos and pr0n is a bummer, but those things can actually hurt. In the bigger picture the important thing is that their computers won't become a part of a botnet. If the user account is not able to install bg services and rootkits or modify system files, the likelihood of the bad things happening is lowered dramatically.
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