Windows local profies gone!?!

[peterk514]

After I Immunized (Spybot S&D 1.5.2.0), my kids' two accounts (XP sp2) give me a message that the windows local profile is gone or corrupted. Their desktops are reset to default; all firefox settings are default, and their favorites gone.

This does not happen to my account, which has administrator rights.

Any idea why, or how I can prevent this in the future? (This is the third time)

PeterK

[md usa spybot fan]

peterk514:

There is a problem with Spybot and corrupted user profiles. According to Patrick Kolla the problem only occurs under a very limited set of circumstances.

If you had rebooted the system at this point everything most likely would have returned to normal. See:
Spybot Corrupting user profiles
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=25448

There is an issue when you kill the Spybot-S&D process and then switch users, or switch users while it is still running, since it's trying to scan those and locking them. After a reboot (or closing Spybot-S&D) it'll be ok again.

That has nothing to do with uninstalling (except that uninstalling will terminate a running Spybot-S&D as well of course).

See also:
Fast User Switching during a scan (http://forums.spybot.info/project.php?issueid=201)
Terminal Services & user profiles (http://forums.spybot.info/project.php?issueid=200)

[peterk514]

Thanks. It did happen both times during a scan (those kids can't wait to get on the computer!).

Now I know better.

Thanks again!