In questo elenco Top 10 (per la sicurezza Internet Mac), un consiglio è:
Special bonus item (for advanced users):
Consider running your Mac as a non-administrative user most of the time. This is an advanced technique that provides few immediate
benefits, but, similar to anti-virus applications, acts as "insurance"
by limiting any damage that could result from a security breach.
Someone gaining access to your machine would still have access to many
of your files, but not to most of the underlying machine and OS
itself. The easiest way to run as a non-admin user is to create a new,
administrative account and then change your normally used account to a
non-administrative one.
Questo passaggio sarebbe parte di un approccio di sicurezza a livelli e probabilmente potrebbe essere applicato a qualsiasi sistema operativo, ad esempio, in Linux non si userebbe un account amministratore / root. Altre fonti approvano questo approccio come best practice per la sicurezza (vedi questo post sul forum e questa pagina dal sito Stanford Secure Computing).