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Re:Ransomware Forces Two Chemical Companies to Order ‘Hundre... by protomyth on Sunday March 24, 2019 @10:42AM (#19476604)
No sane System or Windows Admin gives anyone admin rights on Windows without a very, very good reason (e.g. they are a developer and admin on their machine is a good thing). There also are very few computer uses that require local storage of any sort.
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Re:Ransomware Forces Two Chemical Companies to Order ‘Hundre... by user5994461 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @11:08AM (#19476741)
Should developer have any admin rights by default anymore?

I worked in bank for a while without admin. In many years, the only tool that needed admin rights to run was the Visual Studio C++ Debugger.

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Re:Ransomware Forces Two Chemical Companies to Order ‘Hundre... by protomyth on Sunday March 24, 2019 @11:13AM (#19476775)
Debuggers were one one, but also some other development tools just wouldn't run unless the developer had admin. Virtualization does mitigate some stuff.
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