Repeated "Allowed" Messages

[Fuzzy John]

Everytime I log in to my Windows 2000 workstation I get
the same "Windows Shell Execute Hooks alert" message. This
message also appears repeatedly in the Agent Events log:

 

[Guest]

Same problem with me. It asks me to allow for the same
program on almost every startup? amnesia

 

[Alan]

Think I might know the source of the problem.

If you are using a limited-user account this is to be
expected, as the program is currently a single-user
application. The reason for this is simple. Since MS
bought out Giant Company to acquire Giant AntiSpyware and
released the beta product only 21 days after acquiring
it, they didn't have enough time to convert the
application from a single-user to multi-user. The amount
of coding involved is mind boggling. Even small apps can
take up 1000 lines of code. The code for MSAS is likely
10 - 1000+ times that. Not to mention that they are
likely changing the source code from Visual Basic to C++
or even C# (likely .NET). Making all of those changes
and alpha (pre-beta) testing it will take months.

We might see multi-user support in Beta 2, likely
sometime before the end of the year.

Alan

 

[Fuzzy John]

While the machine is configured for multiple users, the user account I am
using, and under which I noticed this "amnesia" does have administrator
privileges.

John

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I've also seen similar appearances on a machine with multiple users, all of
whom are administrators.

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[Alan]

Only the administrator account that installed the
application is currently supported. Think this is due to
the app looking at the cuurent user's settings and
comparing them to the one who installed the application.

Alan

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Some of the permissions in the registry are apparently set for the current
user only. There are multiple messages in various groups from Kevan Brown
with some useful detail.

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