[Google-Desktop] Re: Security

I second this notion -- before seeing this post I had recently
submitted the following to Google:

>From your online help: "you should have administrator privileges (home
users shouldn't have this problem)." I agree that most home users
haven't figured out that the #1 simple security thing they can do for
themselves is not use a privileged account for every-day tasks,
however, I expect more from Google than to simply be a part of this
very bad practice. Please consider adding user profiles such that a
privileged account installs Desktop, but then limited accounts do the
indexing, everything else, etc. (Profiles have long been a standard
feature in most OSes, including Windows) This suggestion is even more
important in light of the recent Microsoft critical WMF image
vulnerability -- I do NOT want the Google Desktop indexer running in a
privileged security context when it comes across WMF files, etc. Thank
You

A quick search of this group shows that users have been (rightfully so)
complaining about this for a long time now.

Google Desktop is listed on the following Hall Of Shame (for apps that
don't run as LUA):

http://www.pluralsight.com/wiki/default.aspx/Keith.HallOfShame

(Picasa is also in the Hall of Shame)

dmex wrote:
> Google Desktop should work under seperate user privlegies, After
> reading how the WMF vunrubility can be executed by Google Dektop I
> believe should be good anough reason to have the google desktop execute
> under different user rights to protect users from anything that might
> be on there computer from taking over there account.
>
>
> A seperate account would protect users data.