Lab Notes

Internet Explorer will run reduced user privileges by default. I've mentioned this as a possible feature before, and it's nice to see it being implemented. Normally, when a program is launched by a user, the program has all the privileges of that user (install new programs, erase the hard drive, send spam). Since there's no reason for a web browser to need Administrator-level privileges, it makes perfect sense not to run it as Administrator. This simple change should save a lot of people of lot of security headaches (not that it will eliminate all of IE's security problems, but it will eliminate many of them and make others harder to exploit).