Re: Spy/Adware scans on single PC with 4 users

From: "Jackpine" <Jackpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| One of our home computers has 4 users: my wife, two teenagers, and myself.
| We are all registered as administrators. My question is, when I am logged on
| and run utilities such as Spybot, Ad-Aware, Spysweeper, and Registry
| Mechanic, will the entire computer be scanned, or just what I, as the current
| user, have access to?
|
| This is important because if everything gets scanned, then that means that
| each of the four people do not have to log on separately and do their own
| scans.

The current user's Registry will be scanned.

I understand that you can use the RUNAS command with SpyBot and Ad-aware to to scan the
other user's Registries.
Otherwise you would logon as them and perform the scan(s).

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm


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