[ros-dev] dealing with insecure-by-inattention Windows software

[Jasper van de Gronde]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 17:19 +0100, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
> 
>>Are you saying that with Vista it's possible to give a program its own 
>>virtual view of the system which it can read and modify to its heart's 
>>content without affecting other programs? That would be simply divine.
> 
> Yes, although IME, it doesn't work out so well, yet.
> 
> I just posted on that in this thread, as well.  There are more bad
> things that happen as a result.

Apart from obvious problems with giving users enough rights to do common 
tasks, which isn't something I'm terribly worried about in my situation 
(I'm pretty much the only one who should be doing anything mildly 
advanced anyway), could you point out something that goes wrong? I'd 
assume that if an application has its own virtual view of the filesystem 
and registry (that it could read and potentially modify) that most 
applications would work reasonably well.