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lanny76
01-29-2008, 11:51 PM
Don't know that I have ever seen a thread dealing with anything like this, but anyway, I think I have discovered something for myself. On my computer, my DH set up several users - one for himself, one for a guest, one regular one for me, and one with admin privileges. He said for general surfing it would be better if I did not have administrator privileges because the rights I had as admin would really make it easier for someone with nefarious motives to get into my computer and do nasty stuff. But if I surfed without admin privileges it would serve as sort of a block to that. Anyway, I got to wondering if it would be easier to get credits on my admin side - and sure enough it was, for the last 2 days anyway! So I wonder if something about the settings on that side make it easier to go thru or what - but I don't want to expose myself to trouble by doing too much Internet stuff on my admin side.