Spyware possible being on one account and not the other

From: Lord Kyle (Kyle_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:11:02 -0800

Is it possible and if so why doesn't my norton05 ,spysweeper trial ver. and
ad-aware se pro. detect it from my administrator account when I run them? I
run the scans and they dont pick up anything yet the browser in the guest
account is jacked to some site. I try changing the home setting for the
browser and it always reverts back to the same one. I should also should
mention that I didn't do a spysweeper scan on the guest account yet because
when I downloaded it, it was on the administration account. I figured if I
did a scan from the adminstration account, I'd be scanning the whole
computer. Maybe the scanners are missing something? If anybody can shed some
light on this in lamen(did I spell that right?)terms it would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks

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