{"id":285,"date":"2011-02-09T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personalcomputeradvisor.vcwebservices.info\/?p=285"},"modified":"2011-02-09T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T10:03:26","slug":"create-a-separate-adminstrative-user-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Create a Separate Administrator User Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Create a separate user account with administrative privledges, and then\u00a0set your user account (and those of your\u00a0other computer users) to be standard account types.\u00a0 You might name the new\u00a0administrator account &#8220;Joe Admin&#8221;.\u00a0 Create a unique\u00a0password for the Joe Admin account.\u00a0 Restart the computer and logon to the Joe Admin\u00a0account.\u00a0\u00a0Now set your original user account to be a standard account type instead of an administrator.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Joe Admin account is used only when installing software.\u00a0 Otherwise you continue to\u00a0logon to your original standard\u00a0user account for everyday use.\u00a0 The advantage of having a separate administrative account is that whenever software trys to install, Windows will prompt you for the password of the administrator account.\u00a0 This password prompt is a BIG RED FLAG for you that software is about to be installed.\u00a0 This creates a significant hurdle\u00a0for malware to install on your system without your knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Create a separate user account with administrative privledges, and then\u00a0set your user account (and those of your\u00a0other computer users) to be standard account types.\u00a0 You might name the new\u00a0administrator account &#8220;Joe Admin&#8221;.\u00a0 Create a unique\u00a0password for the Joe Admin account.\u00a0 Restart the computer and logon to the Joe Admin\u00a0account.\u00a0\u00a0Now set your original user account to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}