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Sorry, but why should the OP "NOT be using" the Administrator account?

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
 
Tim Meddick said:
Sorry, but why should the OP "NOT be using" the Administrator account?
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The built-in Administrator account should not be used except in
troubleshooting scenarios. A user account in the Administrators group
should be created for general administration such as installing
programs, and so forth.

It's common sense. Any account used regularly runs the risk of
corruption. If you corrupt the built-in Administrator account, you have
no way to log on with admin privileges and repair anything.

If you create a user account with admin privileges and it becomes
corrupt, you have the hidden Administrator account available for
troubleshooting and repair, and for creating a new user account with
admin privileges.

Also, if you use the built-in Administrator account as the only account
with admin privileges, and then later decide to add another user account
with admin privileges, the built-in account will be removed from the
log-in screen and a Registry edit must be done to return it to the
log-in screen.
 
Navyguy said:
I went into the Advanced Mode, then Settings but I couldn't find
anything like 'Skip system accounts during IE immunization to enable.
Given that this doesnt seem to be working, even after installing it
twice is there another malware program similar to Spybot that I could
use that you would recommend? Bearing in mind that I'm live on a fixed
marginal income and cant afford to buy anything.
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You could go to the Spybot forums and ask where the setting is that was
mentioned in the link I gave you, by PepiK, the writer of Spybot.

I haven't found Spybot useful in years. You can get nearly as good an
"immunization" by installing the free version of SpywareBlaster,
manually updating it, then having it "Enable all protection" and then
close the app. About once a week, start SpywareBlaster, run its update,
then "Enable all protection" again to add the new items.

SpywareBlaster:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

If you uninstall Spybot, first turn off (uncheck) Tea Timer and
SDHelper, "un-immunize" your system, then uninstall it.
 
If the "User" account is a limited account, that is, it is not in the
Administrators group and does not have admin privileges, that may
account for Spybot's failure to Immunize if you are trying to Immunize
from the Limited User account.

Is the Administrator account a user account you created with admin
rights, or are you using the built-in Administrator account (which you
should NOT be using)?

Are there any errors in Event Viewer that correspond to the hangs you
are seeing?
Control Panel> Administrative Tools> Event Viewer
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I have a User account with limited privileges and an Administrator
account with full privileges. I only use the Administrator account for
downloads, updates and the like. I Use the user account for surfing
the internet.


I checked the Event Viewer and this is what it gave me:

Application Log Application error records 512 .0 KB
Security Log Security Audit Records 512.0 KB
System Log System Error Records 512.0 KB
Internet Explorer Log Custom Log Error Records –




In application: there’s various errors for application hangings,
warnings for WinMgmt, crypt32 errors, application errors, ESENT,
warnings for MSiInstaller, Microsoft Office 10 errors, SNL
HiveManager warnings, Avira Antivir warning, ASP.NET2.050727.0
warning, LoadPerf errors.

In System there’s an sr error on the 24th and 26th of last month, and
a DCOM on the 24th of last month, then a W32Time error, which was on
the 29th of last month. There’s quite a few recently which have to do
with Service Control Manager and still others with warnings of
avgntflt, and on the 27th of last month Tcpip,

Security had no errors

I use to have Spywareblaster some time ago but was told I should
remove it. Actually, until this situation came about I was perfectly
happy with what I had and it performed well and now its all this,.....

Thoughts/Suggestions
Robert
 
Nil Nil I did not ask a question!

Here your question there is so Software can not be install with a Antivirus
running you know that do you?
 
Nil Nil I did not ask a question!

Here your question there is so Software can not be install with a
Antivirus running you know that do you?
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Please phrase that as a question that makes sense.
 
MyNews said:
You can not run Avira Antivir with installing Software like
AntiSpyware!
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Excuse me? If you're saying you can't run Avira and anti-spyware
software together, you are dead wrong.
 
Navyguy said:
I have a User account with limited privileges and an Administrator
account with full privileges. I only use the Administrator account for
downloads, updates and the like. I Use the user account for surfing
the internet.


I checked the Event Viewer and this is what it gave me:

Application Log Application error records 512 .0 KB
Security Log Security Audit Records 512.0 KB
System Log System Error Records 512.0 KB
Internet Explorer Log Custom Log Error Records –




In application: there’s various errors for application hangings,
warnings for WinMgmt, crypt32 errors, application errors, ESENT,
warnings for MSiInstaller, Microsoft Office 10 errors, SNL
HiveManager warnings, Avira Antivir warning, ASP.NET2.050727.0
warning, LoadPerf errors.

In System there’s an sr error on the 24th and 26th of last month, and
a DCOM on the 24th of last month, then a W32Time error, which was on
the 29th of last month. There’s quite a few recently which have to do
with Service Control Manager and still others with warnings of
avgntflt, and on the 27th of last month Tcpip,

Security had no errors

I use to have Spywareblaster some time ago but was told I should
remove it. Actually, until this situation came about I was perfectly
happy with what I had and it performed well and now its all this,.....
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I can't imagine any reason for someone to tell you to remove
SpywareBlaster on a WinXP system, other than they don't know what they
are talking about.

You need to look for errors listed in Event Viewer that occurred on the
date and time of one of your shutdown failures. Just listing the types
of errors whether or not they correspond to those shutdown failures
doesn't help us.
 
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If your Doctor gaveling you chicken tonic spasm coat,
it may be more sensitive in side effects then cyclobenzaprine
it's time to get a new doctor do you thank?
 
I can't imagine any reason for someone to tell you to remove
SpywareBlaster on a WinXP system, other than they don't know what they
are talking about.

You need to look for errors listed in Event Viewer that occurred on the
date and time of one of your shutdown failures.  Just listing the types
of errors whether or not they correspond to those shutdown failures
doesn't help us.
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MS MVP  Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
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I again cheked the Event Viewer for the last time I had to reset the
cvomputer (yesterday) it gave the following error


Type Source
Error Service Control Manager

When I checked the properties of the error it said Event I.D. 7023


In addition whether Spybot or Spywareblaster, the point is that Spybot
should work after I've uninstalled it and re-installed it. I shouldn't
have to go to Spybots forum for anything because I never had to before
and it worked fine. 'Something' has happened to my computer which is
causing Spybot not to function and to act erratically. That is the
root of this problem. Some have suggested it may be a RAM problem and
I've run Memtest twice and passed. Also, I was able to boot normally
today.


Robert
 
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