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| Thread ID: 50990 | 2004-11-08 08:20:00 | Adaware scanning all XP users | Gill (1530) | Press F1 |
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| 289325 | 2004-11-08 08:20:00 | Hi Folks I am hoping someone can point me to the information that details how to get adaware to scan a computer running XP through all the users instead of just the user logged on at the time. I am running Adaware SE, WindowsXP with SP2. It gets a bit tedious having to log on as each user and run adaware each time, whatsmore, as a school IT person, I am not always able to log on as every user as I don't have passwords. |
Gill (1530) | ||
| 289326 | 2004-11-08 08:52:00 | I thought that if you were logged in as Administrator, it would scan everything physically on the hard drive. | somebody (208) | ||
| 289327 | 2004-11-08 09:25:00 | heard of "HDGaurd" or "Deep Freeze" do a google on ethier one and if you use netware as your NOS check out volitile users (user and settings are deleted on logoff and recreated on logon, all documents etc except os settings are stored/saved to a personal network share normally H:\ ( H for home)). I can reccomend using ethier hdgaurd or deepfreeze as you dont need to delete all those users at the end of the year | beama (111) | ||
| 289328 | 2004-11-08 09:32:00 | ok here you are Hdguard (http://www.hdguard.com) deep freeze for education (www.faronics.com) |
beama (111) | ||
| 289329 | 2004-11-08 22:51:00 | Thanks for your comments Beama - we use Deepfreze at school but not on the laptops that the teachers carry around. I think they would object to the hassle of having everything reset to "original" if they forgot to turn off deepfreeze for an installation. I'll look at HDguard..... trying not to incur any extra costs in an already strapped for cash system! Hey "somebody", I will try logging on as Administrator to see if adaware scans all the directories......does anyone know if this works? Is this differnet to logging on as me personally with administrator rights? becasue thats what I do at the moment but found that I also needed to log on as each other users on the laptop and more adaware was found under each user. I am sure I read an article somewhere recently about how to do this - PC World maybe? |
Gill (1530) | ||
| 289330 | 2004-11-08 23:09:00 | laptops oh sorry I thought you meant desktops heres what we do install spybot (which does have a real time monitoring, tea timer, Not sure how effective) then educate the teachers in the way of the web, we (tech support) only get involved when needed ie a virus trying to get out past the firewall (we get a lot of access deny messages on our logs with an ip match which we then match to machine/user, virus updates and microsoft patches are forced down all users they have no option. My reccomendation do some staff devlopment for you teaching staff teach them how to run such apps as adaware or spybot |
beama (111) | ||
| 289331 | 2004-11-09 03:45:00 | Staff development always ongoing and yes I encourage them to do this themselves - BUT thats the ideal world. Mostly I get to sort out a computer that is chocked up and running adaware is one of the "fixes" - the thing that bugs me is that it only appears to scan the user that is logged on....back to my original request. How can I get it to scan all users without separately logging on as each one? |
Gill (1530) | ||
| 289332 | 2004-11-09 03:53:00 | Log on as an administrative user. If you don't have any admin uses set up on the machine, you can get at the machine's default 'administrator' account by booting in safe mode (if you use the XP welcome screen) or by logging on as 'administrator' if you use the classic logon. This account has no password by default. If you run the scan as an admin, it should scan everything on the disk, as has been said earlier. Bletch |
Bletch (244) | ||
| 289333 | 2004-11-09 03:55:00 | There is this thread on the lavasoft forums here (www.lavasoftsupport.com) looks like the pro version can scan all users not the personal version. But i wound'nt give up hope as some one may turn up some thing. hth |
johnboy (217) | ||
| 289334 | 2004-11-09 04:34:00 | Inconclusive. However it brought to light some issues I was not aware of, and maybe you could try running Ad-Aware as 'system'. You cannot login as this user. Bletch |
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