a sentence like that just confuses things.
it is very general, non technical, has no meaning.
Why does it confuse things? its correct, in using a non administrators account. Anyone with a computer of their own knows that
You said "True I was also thinking people need to use non admin accounts does reduce the risk of having the hard disc hacked"
That does not even deserve to be called "correct" or "not correct".
I am not picking the fact that you spelt hard disc as if it is an optical disc. It is Hard Disk.
But talking about hard disks getting hacked is just ridiculous.. It does not mean anything. Be specific.
When you say "hacked", do you mean "attacked". I can attack a hard drive. Throw it out a window(your limited account won`t help you there). Given physical access I can go in administrative.
Do you mean theoretical case of files deleted from malware that hijacks your browser. Or from a virus? That can happen from a limited account too.
You are blurring something very simple.
Limited accounts just stop the user , and any programs, including malware programs, from writing or deleting in certain directories.
No files on root. But can put directories there.
prob Cannot put directories in "program files" Certainly cannot put files there. (I am not on such a machine right now so cannot check)
Similarly with the windows directory
Certain paths in the registry are disabled, so malware cannot put itself there so it starts when windows starts.
The main result of that is it protects windows..
So you won`t have to reinstall it if it gets attacked. Because it won`t get messed up badly, if at all.