Running as Non-Admin in Windows XP

I recently had a chat with Tonny Bjorn after my recent blog post and he pointed me to a solution he is using to have users running as non-admin on Windows XP and still having the ability to elevate: He uses a freeware called Sudo for Windows and seems to be fairly happy with it. I have to possibility to look into it (I am running Windows 7 or Windows Vista) but you might want to consider something like that. The real disadvantage is that it installs a service (I think as Local System). So, if this service has a vuln, you are toast as well…

So, I cannot recommend this as I do not know it well enough but it might be worth a look

Roger