Problems when running Microsoft Anti Spyware with non administrator

[puptz]

Hi,

I run Microsoft Anti Spyware from an account which is not
part of the local machine administrators group (Win 2k),
and I experience some annoying behavior:

1. The last scan date is never updated (it is, if I run the
Anti Spyware using the administrator account).
2. It doesn't remember some of my selections (whenever I
reboot, it keeps asking me if I approve adding some site to
the trusted zone, and if I approve running my some program
at startup. But the program at hand was installed 2 years
ago...)

Another annoying thing that's not specific to non-
administrative accounts is an internationalization problem.
My default locale is Hebrew, and so I get the date of the
last scan in Hebrew, but it uses the wrong character set so
there's really no way of reading the date (anyway, I'd
prefer having the day in English, being that the whole
interface is English).

Are these known bugs, am I the first to report them, or am
I simply doing something wrong here?

 

[Robin Walker [MVP]]

I run Microsoft Anti Spyware from an account which is not
part of the local machine administrators group (Win 2k),

This is not recommended. At the present time, Microsoft AntiSpyware
functions correctly only when run under an account with Administrator
rights. This will be addressed in later versions, but probably not soon.

Another annoying thing that's not specific to non-
administrative accounts is an internationalization problem.
My default locale is Hebrew,

At the present time, Microsoft AntiSpyware is English-only, and only works
correctly in an English locale, or locales which are closely compatible to
English.

 

[puptz]

-----Original Message-----

This is not recommended. At the present time, Microsoft AntiSpyware
functions correctly only when run under an account with Administrator
rights. This will be addressed in later versions, but probably not soon.

So in the near future, in order to benefit from spyware
detection and real-time protection I have to make myself
more vulnerable to malware (specifically to zero-day
exploits) by working with an administrator account.

That's funny. I thought the recommendation not to use an
administrator account for every day work was made by
Microsoft itself...

puptz