Hi,
I'm not sure how to search this issue so hopefully it is okay to post a question?
Recently my mother purchased a new Windows XP Home computer for herself. As it turns out it has become the "household" computer
which means she is now sharing it with another of her children and a boarder.
I didn't realize that this would be a problem but it seems it has become one.
I should preface this with the fact that I spent most of a whole day last week installing and updating Security software on the computer. Then last night I find out a friend (of my sibling & the boarder) came over and created two additional User Accounts (with Admin privilages.)
When I heard I suggested that my Mom re-immunize in Spybot. After clicking on the "Immunize" button the message received was all bad addresses are already being blocked. The thing is I am sure I read here that Spybot will immunize each User Account seperately? She checked the Desktops of the other Users and neither shows a Spybot Icon. Which may or may not mean something?
My question is: Is it possible that these New Accounts can choose NOT to run Spybot & it's SD Helper? In fact, since they have Admin privilages does this mean that they can use the Control Panel and the Add /Remove or the Security Center to uninstall /undo all the Security updates I made?
Thanks in advance for any help and /or advice offered. (I'm pretty much a novice with Windows XP so please be gentle with me, LOL!)
O
p.s. Yesterday morning before this happened I had spent somewhere around an hour on the phone with my Mom helping her use the Spybot and Ad-Aware programs to eliminate almost 30 Spyware bits that had been downloaded in the last 3 days.
p.p.s. I hope the computer is clean but I'm not even sure as one of the issues was with "SpywareCleaner" and its alerts
I'm not sure how to search this issue so hopefully it is okay to post a question?
Recently my mother purchased a new Windows XP Home computer for herself. As it turns out it has become the "household" computer
which means she is now sharing it with another of her children and a boarder.I didn't realize that this would be a problem but it seems it has become one.
I should preface this with the fact that I spent most of a whole day last week installing and updating Security software on the computer. Then last night I find out a friend (of my sibling & the boarder) came over and created two additional User Accounts (with Admin privilages.)
When I heard I suggested that my Mom re-immunize in Spybot. After clicking on the "Immunize" button the message received was all bad addresses are already being blocked. The thing is I am sure I read here that Spybot will immunize each User Account seperately? She checked the Desktops of the other Users and neither shows a Spybot Icon. Which may or may not mean something?
My question is: Is it possible that these New Accounts can choose NOT to run Spybot & it's SD Helper? In fact, since they have Admin privilages does this mean that they can use the Control Panel and the Add /Remove or the Security Center to uninstall /undo all the Security updates I made?
Thanks in advance for any help and /or advice offered. (I'm pretty much a novice with Windows XP so please be gentle with me, LOL!)
O
p.s. Yesterday morning before this happened I had spent somewhere around an hour on the phone with my Mom helping her use the Spybot and Ad-Aware programs to eliminate almost 30 Spyware bits that had been downloaded in the last 3 days.
p.p.s. I hope the computer is clean but I'm not even sure as one of the issues was with "SpywareCleaner" and its alerts
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