Re:The No More Ransom Project
by mschuster91 on Sunday October 30, 2016 @05:19PM
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Nope, 95/98 and IIRC 3.11 are true multi-tasking systems, the processes do not share the RAM address space.
However, everything up to, but not including, Windows 2000 (and its predecessor Windows NT) suffers from ALL local users having effectively admin rights on the machines. Not only that the OS doesn't support user permissions, also the underlying file system FAT32 does not store UID/GID or anything, except the file flags "read only"/"system"/"hidden".
Only Windows NT and above (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10) are secured in this way. Caveat: NT, 2k and XP allowed installations on FAT32, which nullified many protections.
However, everything up to, but not including, Windows 2000 (and its predecessor Windows NT) suffers from ALL local users having effectively admin rights on the machines. Not only that the OS doesn't support user permissions, also the underlying file system FAT32 does not store UID/GID or anything, except the file flags "read only"/"system"/"hidden".
Only Windows NT and above (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10) are secured in this way. Caveat: NT, 2k and XP allowed installations on FAT32, which nullified many protections.