XP User Account Problems

[Geoff Lane]

In an attempt to tighten up on computer security I have started to use
User Accounts on my laptop with XP Home.

The admin account is protected with a password and I have two limited
accounts for myself and my wife.

Problem is one of my network monitoring programs (packetMon from
AnologX) will not operate under my user account but does so OK when
loaded from admin.

I get the error 'unable to open raw socket'.

I was under the impression it is best not to have the admin account
open when on the net.

Geoff Lane

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I was under the impression it is best not to have the
admin account
open when on the net.

That's right but raw sockets allow people to spoof their
IP addresses and Microsoft decided that only admins
should be able to do that ;-)