No detection of spywear from other users on XP home

[Paul]

I've installed the spywear software on my home PC as the
Administrator. I ran a scan and it found a few peices of
spywear that I removed.

Then when my partner logged on a message popped up that
some spywear was trying to run. I ran the scan again on
my account and it came up with nothing, but the message
popped up again when she logged in.

It wasn't until I ran the scan under her account that it
found about 5 more spywear programs!

Anyone else had this problem, if not how do I report it?

Thanks,

Paul.

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Run a scan in safe mode.

Andre

 

[Steve Dodson [MSFT]]

Paul,

Were you able to remove the other user's spyware when she logged in? If it
was removed, I assume it did not come back. We have a few bugs filed on
multi-user issues. I believe that you are running into an issue which will
be fixed with a future release.


-steve


Steve Dodson [MSFT]
MCSE, CISSP
PSS Security

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[Paul]

Yes. The other user, although not an admin account, had no
problems removing the spywear on a proper scan (I ran it
again to make sure). However it didn't remove it the
first time from the popup.

I'm glad to hear that this is already documented.

I'd also like to say that MS Spywear found lots of
programs that Spybot or Adaware didn't. I just hope it's
cheap or free when it's released!

Paul.

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Paul,

Were you able to remove the other user's spyware when she logged in? If it
was removed, I assume it did not come back. We have a few bugs filed on
multi-user issues. I believe that you are running into an issue which will
be fixed with a future release.


-steve


Steve Dodson [MSFT]
MCSE, CISSP
PSS Security

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I've installed the spywear software on my home PC as the
Administrator. I ran a scan and it found a few peices of
spywear that I removed.

Then when my partner logged on a message popped up that
some spywear was trying to run. I ran the scan again on
my account and it came up with nothing, but the message
popped up again when she logged in.

It wasn't until I ran the scan under her account that it
found about 5 more spywear programs!

Anyone else had this problem, if not how do I report it?

Thanks,

Paul.

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