2014-08-22, 17:46
(2014-08-22, 17:03)voip-ninja Wrote: It is pretty foolish to have ANY windows box on your home network without those protections regardless of what it is used for.
Nonsense. If it's a dedicated XBMC machine, how many attack vectors do you think that actually leaves open than can still get past modern built-in safety mechanisms like UAC? Pretty much the only way to infect a Win8 machine these days is to target the only weakness in the system - the user. If you're essentially jailing yourself in XBMC, this is of zero concern.
Assessing risk, determining none and removing a solution to a problem that doesn't exist while improving performance is the opposite of foolish.