Hi John,
Yes, it is not recommended be logged as administrator all time, that was also reason for UAC (user access control).
Thanks
Another good reason not to run using your Administrator account – viruses can go undetected! I had my elderly parents' computer running AVG and happily reporting a clean system, but their internet was sluggish at times. There were no unusual services or startup programs, but on a clean boot there was a lot of network activity. Running netstat showed a ton of TCP/IP connections to random IP's around the world and some junk domain names, again right after a clean bootup (not running a browser or anything). These connections were all being made by Windows command-line utility processes like regsvr32 (which doesn't make network connections) so there was some virus launching legitimate Windows processes like that (I'm guessing to bypass Windows firewall) then injecting code or running as a child process to make the connections. All of that was possible because the user account had administrator authentication.
I re-ran a full scan and AVG said nothing found, and for that matter Windows Defender said nothing found. When I created a new user account and booted up into that, the virus' network connections didn't occur.
I mistakenly assumed an antivirus, Windows Defender and both hardware and software firewalls were sufficient protection, so let them just run as administrator to avoid one extra step of logging in on powerup. Obviously it's not sufficient – viruses can evade detection if they're running as administrator!
Hi John,
Yes, it is not recommended be logged as administrator all time, that was also reason for UAC (user access control).
Thanks