You can protect yourself by using a standard account as your primary account and then temporarily elevating permissions when you need to make administrator changes. If a malicious app or “BADGUY” gains access to your computer and you are logged in with admin privileges, this means that the app or bad person will *also* have these admin privileges. Often this is because you have always done it and have not considered a) the consequences of this and b) that there is another way! Most people run their computers with administrative privileges. Is your computer account an admin account?Įxplore why this is a bad move and what you can do to make yourself safer.
