Re: Spyware possible being on one account and not the other

From: GTS (x)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:50:35 -0500

It's not only possible, it's fairly common. You need to run the spyware
scans under each user when a machine is heavily infected. The main reason
for this is the fact that the individual user registry hive
HKEY_CURRENT_USER may contain references to parasites. Unfortunately none
of the spyware scanners are foolproof and are particularly prone to fail if
a parasite is not loaded when scanning. I've seen problems with this
especially with some of the severe parasites that may generate randomly
named files. Scanners will often fail to detect them. 

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"Lord Kyle" <Lord Kyle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:D317A3D5-3209-41F2-B351-2F579E60515E@microsoft.com...
> 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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