Can't Immunize Under Vista?

[jangell2]

First, this is a new Dell running Home Premium. I installed Spybot yesterday and today I noticed it cannot immunize anything and says it needs administrator rights. When I look at Spybot in the the start menu, it has the icon indicating it is being run as admin is present.

There is only one account on this pc and I have verified it is the admin. One thing I did yesterday, when first running the machine was to enter a password. I later realized I'd have to intervene at every startup, so I removed the password. I think that creating the password and removing it all occurred before installing spybot, but I'm not sure.

Did removing the password remove some admin rights? This pc is run at home, so I feel comfortable without a password. Is there a way to verify that spybot is being run with or without admin rights?

Advice, please.

[jangell2]

Well, it's now gone from immunizing nothing to immunizing about 8,000 items but that leaves 25,000 items not immunized.

[md usa spybot fan]

See:
How can I get Administrator rights under Windows Vista?
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=faq&detail=42

[jangell2]

See:
How can I get Administrator rights under Windows Vista?
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=faq&detail=42Thank you for you suggestion. I had just found another thread mentioning this. I did do it and now I am fully immunized. My question now is will I have to do this on every bootup?

[Zenobia]

You have to rightclick Spybot each time and select 'Run As Administrator' each time you want to run Spybot as an administrator,it isn't a one time thing.

Since you have a new Vista,you might want to have a look at the section here about User Account Control:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#Security-related_technologies
Also:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/0eeb9ddd-ddaa-4cc5-a092-9908305665471033.mspx
and this has some more about dealing with UAC:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/f941cb45-b2cd-4b39-ab87-cb9ea959f44e1033.mspx

[jangell2]

You have to rightclick Spybot each time and select 'Run As Administrator' each time you want to run Spybot as an administrator,it isn't a one time thing.

Since you have a new Vista,you might want to have a look at the section here about User Account Control:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#Security-related_technologies
Also:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/0eeb9ddd-ddaa-4cc5-a092-9908305665471033.mspx
and this has some more about dealing with UAC:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/f941cb45-b2cd-4b39-ab87-cb9ea959f44e1033.mspx
Thank you for those links. One question is when spybot is run resident at startup time, are all the immunizations automatically in effect without me manually running spybot with admint control?

[Zenobia]

You're welcome. :)
Yes,all the immunizations would be in affect on startup without you running Spybot with admin control,so long as you had previously immunized Spybot as admin.Immunization is separate from resident.md usa spybot fan has a post explaining how immunization works here:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=281

Sometimes some things are added to immunization after an update.Spybot 1.5.2.20 should pop up a box telling you to immunize after the update.