Does removing admin rights really mitigate 90% of Critical Windows 7 vulnerabilities found to date?
- by Jordan Weinstein
Beyondtrust.com published a report, somewhat recently, claiming among other quite compelling things, "90% of Critical Microsoft Windows 7 Vulnerabilities are Mitigated by Eliminating Admin Rights"
Other interesting 'facts' they provide say that these are also mitigated by NOT running as a local admin:
100% of Microsoft Office vulnerabilities…