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"Mike Fields" <spam_me_not_mr.gadget2@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> OK, I'll buy the need to be different users, HOWEVER, I still
> have not figured out how to logon as "user2" without knowing
> their password. Yes, I can change the password as an admin,
> but I just want to be able to logon as them to make sure the
> spywarefinder stuff can work without having to know their
> password. I did a google for "xp logon different user" and found
> others asking the same question, but no one seemed to have an
> answer (other than you could run IE with runas to run under a
> different user and comments that you could NOT do that with
> Explorer). What is the incantation that I have missed somewhere??
>
> mikey
>
You either need to know their password or change it when logged in as
another user with administrator permissions. Be aware that if they have
encrypted files and you change the password via another user they may lose
those files forever. When you are working on a computer you need the
passwords for all of the users.
Kerry
> "Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
> news:uzZj3orbFHA.3444@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> "Malke" <invalid@not-real.com> wrote in message
>> news:OUv9koqbFHA.464@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> > Kerry Brown wrote:
>> >
>> >> "Mike Fields" <spam_me_not_mr.gadget2@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> >> news:eqUJAWpbFHA.1392@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> >>> Greetings -- I realize there are antivirus and spyware groups, but
>> >>> I often see people in this group recommending the typical ad-aware,
>> >>> spybot and an antivirus solution. I use ad-aware often, and in
>> >>> looking at their site this morning, I found a statement that raised a
>> >>> flag in my mind. I have been sort of working on the assumption that
>> >>> when you run it, it scans the whole machine (unless told otherwise),
>> >>> however, on their "plus" version, they have the comment that it
>> >>>
>> >>> [begin "improved features" quote]
>> >>> -- Now scans registry branches of multiple user accounts
>> >>> -- Scan registry for all users instead of current user only
>> >>> [end quote]
>> >>>
>> >>> The obvious (well to me anyway) implication is that without their
>> >>> "plus" version, you have to run it logged on as each user on your
>> >>> machine to make sure you get stuff. Is this just my way of reading
>> >>> their information, or have I been wandering along assuming that
>> >>> it was checking things when in reality it was only looking at my
>> >>> stuff ??
>> >>>
>> >>> mikey
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Computers with several user accounts can be very hard and tedious to
>> >> clean. You have to logon in safe mode as each user (including
>> >> administrator) in turn and scan with several antispyware and antivirus
>> >> applications. Then do it all again in normal mode. Sometimes you have
>> >> to repeat this process several times. Even that doesn't always work.
>> >> Sometimes when you logon as one user the other users will be
>> >> re-infected. When that happens you have to resort to manual registry
>> >> edits for each user and hunting down and killing the offending program
>> >> with BartPe or a Linux boot CD. No one said it was easy
>> >>
>> >> Kerry
>> >
>> > Thanks for expanding on this, Kerry. The only thing I'd mention is that
>> > you usually don't have to log onto different accounts for the antivirus
>> > scans.
>> >
>> > Malke
>> > --
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>>
>> I've recently come across several java exploits that are caught by some
>> of
>> the online antivirus scanners but not by any of the antispyware scanners.
>> They only seem to show up for each user when logged in as that user. I
>> usually just delete the java cache but using the control panel applet
> these
>> files didn't get deleted. I could only manually delete them from BartPe
>> or
>> when logged in as a different user. I'm sure it was just a permissions
> issue
>> but I've been doing antivirus scans as each user since I ran across them.
> If
>> they show up I know I've got to boot into BartPe and manually delete the
>> java cache.
>>
>> Kerry
>>
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