Spurious warning of change of root shell in MSAS

[Guest]

In our family we run three PCs with various versions of windows: my desktop
PC has Windows 2000 Professional+SP4, my wife's laptop has Windows XP Home +
SP2 and my laptop has Windows XP Professional x64. On all three, I have set
up a "normal" user account and an "administrator" account. I have installed
Microsoft AntiSpyware on all three of them. On my wife's PC (but not on
either of the others), every time she logs in as the normal user, Microsoft
AntiSpyware warns that there was an attempt to change the root shell from the
ID for the admin user to the ID for the normal user. She selects the
"Approve" option, with the "Remember this action" box ticked, but every time
the blue warning box comes up. This is understandable if the last login was
to the admin account, but it shouldn't happen when the last login was to the
user account. Both the Win2K Pro and the WinXP Pro x64 setups work as I think
they should - how can I persuade the WinHP Home setup to behave itself (apart
from removing MSAS)?

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I'd like to see you replace Microsoft Antispyware with Windows Defender, and
see how the behavior changes. I've seen one report from a network admin
where such things are controlled by Group Policy that they are still getting
unwanted alerts--but I suspect in your case, this should actually work right
with the new code:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...e7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&DisplayLang=en

Run the download to upgrade/replace Microsoft Antispyware beta1.

 

[Guest]

Thanks very much! I followed the link you gave me and downloaded both
versions (the x64 version for my laptop, the 32-bit version for my desktop &
my wife's laptop). I've just installed the 32-bit version on my wife's laptop
(working as "administrator"), logged off and logged on as the normal user,
and there is no spurious warning! Problem solved

Thanks again

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Terrific--the x64 version is only applicable if you are actually runing
64-bit XP or Vista. If you are running 32-bit XP on a 64 bit processor, use
the 32-bit version.

Glad to hear that at least one of the annoyances of multiple users and
limited versus administrator users is solved!
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