Le 2013-08-31 22:00, Patrick Elliott a écrit :
> On 8/31/2013 10:50 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:19:45 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>
>>> What I *do* have an issue with is MS deciding that *I* can't get stuff
>>> done with my own PC because "most" end-users don't need that feature.
>>
>> Such as?
>>
>> Jim
>>
> Hmm. How about - "Without hunting down some third party tool to do it."?
> Though, some things the OS just won't let you do at all. Like, well,
> nearly any tool used to test network issues is "throttled", as in, in
> this case, "strangled" by the "protections" added, to prevent certain
> types of packets, which "might" be from a virus/worm/botnet.

You can't open sockets for ports below 1024 on *nix without being root 
either.

It _IS_ to prevent bots from running under your user credentials


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