On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:05:46PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > Without taking up the issue of "my mailer is better than Outlook" (of > course it is) XP's filesystem permissions *also* limit damage to > user-owned files. If you aren't in a domain new users in XP are by default added to the Admins group. In reality almost everybody at Microsoft ran as Admin on their own box. Everytime code red or nimda would come out every machine at Microsoft got toasted.