Why Macs Are Better – Number 4,321
If there ever was any doubt about the superiority of the Mac OS over Windoze, then this article in the Washington Post Tech section should dispel it. Dealing with spyware and other on-line onslaughts are not the exclusive domain of Windoze, but it sure does seem that those systems are particularly at risk. And the solutions seem to be fairly daunting.
First you download a zip file and then:
“… go to the Windows desktop, right-click on it, select "New" and then "Shortcut." Then, in the box underneath the text that reads "Type the location of the item," type or browse for the directory where the "DropMyRights.exe" program was installed (mine was under C:\Documents and Settings\MyDocuments\MSDN\DropmyRights\dropmyrights.exe). Keep this windows open for the time being and don't click any more buttons on it; we'll come back to it in a moment.
At this point, you just need to know the location of each program you want to run under a non-administrator account, in order to create a clickable icon on the Windows desktop and/or the Windows taskbar that you can use to start the program in limited-user mode whenever you want…”
Easy as pie. Check it out here.