The ATO and viruses

We changed this week's ABC 702 Weekend computer spot to discuss the Haxdoor virus and the ATO admitting users have had their details compromised.

In researching for the show, I stumbled previous warnings from the ATO about Trojan problems.

What worries me is that the ATO are the only big organisation admitting to this problem. There is no doubt banks are affected in a similar way. How much fraud is going on is a serious question.

It certainly has settled in my mind that all users should be Restricted Users and bugger the inconveniences.

Microsoft stuffed up XP by not introducing Restricted Users as the default. The question is how they are going to handle user permissions in Vista.