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| Thread ID: 96663 | 2009-01-18 20:03:00 | Looking for Malware - all users ? | Digby (677) | Press F1 |
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| 740081 | 2009-01-18 20:03:00 | Hi Guys I have a laptop with XP and a few users. If running a program such as Malwarebytes Anti Malware does one have to run the scan on each user ? Regards Digby |
Digby (677) | ||
| 740082 | 2009-01-18 20:10:00 | Go into documents and settings on the C: and see if you can access the other users folders. If you can, no need to scan on each account. If you cant (sometimes password protected accounts can be set up to prevent access to data) then you're best to do a scan in each account. Always have a quick check in all the accounts anyway, to make sure it all looks kosher. |
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| 740083 | 2009-01-18 21:02:00 | If a PC I work on has multi accounts, I always scan them all - usually most will be picked up from one account, but sometimes depending on the infections the other accounts wont be fully clean, and others get detected. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 740084 | 2009-01-18 22:57:00 | Yes. Try it. Scan one. Then login in to the next and scan again. There's always stuff in the specific user folders that gets missed if you don't. | pctek (84) | ||
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