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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 1792 days ago
Everyone at the company I work for has local admin on their machines. It is not the big deal people make it out to be.

1) Malware doesn't care. It is happy to eat the user's personal data or anything they have access to on the network.

2) The OS is easily replicable if it gets damaged or destroyed thanks to imaging.

3) Whitelisting applications is a bitch to implement properly and causes a lot of friction for users.

4) There is one PC per user, so there's absolutely no reason to protect the PC from it's user.