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Infections that don't require admin rights

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TL;DR What percentage of current of viruses/malware/etc don't need admin rights in 2014?

There was an old article that claimed "90 percent of Windows 7 flaws fixed by removing admin rights" and I'm wondering how true that is today.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/half-of-windows-flaws-mitigated-by-removing-admin-righ...

We all know the reasons for having your users run as a standard user and that's how my environment is. I was keeping Java and the common 3rd party programsup to date for everyone with ninite shutdown script. I recently took the step of uninstalling Java for everyone except those who specifically need it on a regular basis after readinghttp://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cp-javaruntime/all/allwhich says it's used on less than .1% of websites and we don't have many applications that need it.


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