Re: Google Desktop as a development tool

The security blame in this case is not really an uneducated one. The operating system provides weak security restraints for accounts, and you're blaming the application?

Please. If you install Google Desktop Search as an admin, it will have administrative privileges. Your dream analogy with Unix would not work, because on Unix account you'd probably install it as a user, and thus it would have the same permissions as you do.

People get hung up on the idea of this application suddenly discovering everything on the hard drive, but they forget, that such activity would be possible with any similar app, whether it comes from Google or not.

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Re^2: Google Desktop as a development tool by jacques (Priest) on Dec 06, 2004 at 01:34 UTC
you're blaming the application What in the world?	[reply]
Re^2: Google Desktop as a development tool by itub (Priest) on Dec 06, 2004 at 20:07 UTC
I tried to install Google Desktop Search on Win2000 and it said To install or run Google Destop Search you need administrator access on this computer. Please try installing again once you have administrator access. Ok, so I ran the installer as Administrator and everything worked. But the problem is that now it will only run as administrator, which is extremely annoying and insecure. I've heard anectdotes of people running it as a regular user, but I haven't been able to do that yet.	[reply]
Re^3: Google Desktop as a development tool by ww (Archbishop) on Dec 06, 2004 at 20:26 UTC
update for clarity: answer to immediate parent, how to install for multi-users is outside the scope of Perl Monks -- eg, not perl related. However, you can find out how to install a program in W2k, as admin, for all users, in the series of dialogues used in the install process. If you wish to learn, try uninstalling and then watch options in the install dialogue carefully	[reply]