Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

On Sun, 18 May 2025 20:59:13 +0000, Tyrone wrote:

On May 17, 2025 at 8:38:31 PM EDT, "chrisv" <chrisv@nospam.invalid>
wrote:
 

Paul wrote:
 

You have to be TrustedInstaller to do much of anything.
 
That's why malware runs as TrustedInstaller.

 
I've caught wind of my company's plans to disallow USB sticks on our
PC's.
 
I'm not sure what to do.  I use them almost daily.

 
For what? USB sticks are a security nightmare.  Why aren't you using the
company network?

Yeah, the days of SneakerNet are long gone, I hope. tbh probably the last
time I inserted a USB stick was to use rufus to create a bootable drive
after I'd used the company's big pipe to download an iso.