Secure your computer by not using Administrator account!

If you are a windows user then you know the pain of fighting against those nasty viruses and Trojans. One of the ways of fighting these malicious programs is that instead of running yourself with Administrative privileges, use a restricted or a normal user account.

I know that most of you’ll think that what’s the point of having a personal computer when you don’t have full control over it and that you don’t want to get into the mess of logging off and logging back on when you want to start or stop a service or when you want to reinstall an application.

Well, there is a simple work around to such a problem (actually two work around) and here’s what you can do :

1. Right click on any software or program which needs the administrative privileges and select Run As and that’ll give you the option of inserting the username and password. Over there type the administrator username and password and you’ll be able to run the application or install that application.

2. Creating a batch file to load command prompt with administrative privileges :

a) Open Notepad
b) copy this text in it : runas /user:computer\user cmd.exe (in order to find the computer name : Right click on My Computer and select properties and then go to Computer Name tab. You’ll find the full computer name there).
c) replace the computer (in that text) with the computer name and user (again in the text of step 2) with the administrator username)
d) save the file as powercmd.cmd

Now, when ever you want to run an application or installer file, simply double click on this file, enter the password and then run that application through the command prompt.

It’s always good to run a computer with normal account as those nasty viruses and trojans will not have the administrative privileges too and thus you’ll be safe in many ways.