Most security vulnerabilities that affected Windows last year could have been mitigated in most cases by lifting access to administrator rights, according to a new release.
The survey was published on Thursday by the security company Avecto and reported that 85% as a whole of critical defects affecting Microsoft's operating system could have stopped immediately, preventing them from spreading to system files.
Administrator accounts are often found on home consumer computers because they give users access to what's on the system.
But it is malicious λογισμικό, που το γνωρίζει αυτό, χτυπάει, αναζητώντας τους λογαριασμούς των διαχειριστών για να αποκτήσει όσα περισσότερα προνόμια μπορεί. Έτσι το malware or o hacker it can modify Windows kernel files, and steal or destroy whatever data it wants.
Many businesses have Window systems for their employees with a limited level of access, which reduces the spread of malware or hackers.
The report reports that removing administrator rights could have mitigated more than 99 percent of the vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer, and 82 percent of all Office vulnerabilities.
The company in its research analyzed all of the vulnerabilities listed in Microsoft's monthly security updates, released Tuesday with the Patch, to find that Windows accounts that were not affected by vulnerabilities "have been configured to have fewer privileges. users in the system. "
