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Preventing simple local DOS attacks
After years of Microsoft reengineering Windows with an emphasis on security,
I still see no way to give a user an account on my computer without also giving him the ability to (accidentally or intentionally) perform very effective DOS attacks by allocating gobs of memory, with the result that switching users or performing any tasks under any other user accounts is so dreadfully slow that I just give up and want to throw the computer across the room because it's doing nothing but grinding away constantly on the swap file. So, in Vista, how do I set memory quotas for users, so that if their programs try to suck up more memory than they're allowed, a UAC dialog pops up asking for an administrator password? |