MADx
join:2005-05-25
Richmond, IN
1 edit | Best Anti-virus for a Limited Account I set my mother's computer on a limited account, and made myself the system administrator. I installed Comodo firewall and use Microsoft Security Essential (beta) as the anti-virus. Comodo works fine under a limited account, Microsoft anti-virus works but will not update under a limited account. I just wanted to know what anti-virus works best under a limited account. Thank you. |
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1 edit | I heard good things about Avast.
Norton and Mcafee are good too, but there are mostly good for enterprise enviroments. And they tend to slow your PC down.
For a home user, Avast is good among others such as NOD32, and ETrust...
Theres no such thing as "best" AV software.
As long as you have common sense by not opening attachments and not sharing files on the net and etc.....then you be OK.
Its a good start that you run as a Limited User. |
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Avira works very nice under a limited account, if installed in the admin account first of course. For the most part these days I only go online under my limited account and update Avira just fine that way.  |
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said by MADx:I set my mother's computer on a limited account, and made myself the system administrator. I installed Comodo firewall and use Microsoft Security Essential (beta) as the anti-virus. Comodo works fine under a limited account, Microsoft anti-virus works but will not update under a limited account. I just wanted to know what anti-virus works best under a limited account. Thank you. Now that's very strange that MSE wont update under a limited account. Was it installed on the admin account or the limited account?
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 poppsterTell the truth and then run.Premium
join:2003-12-23
Midwest
kudos:1 | reply to MADx
Avast. I also use Comodo Internet Security on another pc and works quite well also. |
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MSE get updates via WU on any type of accounts |
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join:2001-11-05
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kudos:1 | It would be nice. I too wanted to utilize MSE on in laws computer. I instead choose avast since it would update via LUA. |
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MSE (and pretty much any of the MS products update perfectly well with a limited account. The only area I'm not sure of is with a limited account on XP. |
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| said by Hangetsu:MSE (and pretty much any of the MS products update perfectly well with a limited account. The only area I'm not sure of is with a limited account on XP. Maybe the OP will come back and answer a few lingering questions then...
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 Red GreenPremium
join:2003-01-22
Saint Louis, MO | reply to Hangetsu
said by Hangetsu:MSE (and pretty much any of the MS products update perfectly well with a limited account. The only area I'm not sure of is with a limited account on XP. I can verify that MSE will not auto update in XP using a limited account. I kept getting "You are not connected to the internet" message if I tried to do it manually. I switched back to Avast.
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MADx
join:2005-05-25
Richmond, IN | reply to GuruGuy
said by GuruGuy:said by MADx:I set my mother's computer on a limited account, and made myself the system administrator. I installed Comodo firewall and use Microsoft Security Essential (beta) as the anti-virus. Comodo works fine under a limited account, Microsoft anti-virus works but will not update under a limited account. I just wanted to know what anti-virus works best under a limited account. Thank you. Now that's very strange that MSE wont update under a limited account. Was it installed on the admin account or the limited account? It was installed under the admin account. |
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MADx
join:2005-05-25
Richmond, IN | reply to Red Green
said by Red Green:said by Hangetsu:MSE (and pretty much any of the MS products update perfectly well with a limited account. The only area I'm not sure of is with a limited account on XP. I can verify that MSE will not auto update in XP using a limited account. I kept getting "You are not connected to the internet" message if I tried to do it manually. I switched back to Avast. Exact same message I was getting when trying to manually update under limited account. Also using XP SP3. |
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MADx
join:2005-05-25
Richmond, IN | reply to poppster
said by poppster:Avast. I also use Comodo Internet Security on another pc and works quite well also. Thanks, I think I will try Avast. |
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| Fair enough on the XP then; All of my boxes are Vista so didn't know. I know XP's limited accounts were overly restrictive, so that probably explains it. |
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 HA NutPremium
join:2004-05-13
USA | reply to MADx
I use Avast on XP PCs with Limited accounts. Works well. |
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I can verify that MSE will not auto update in XP using a limited account. I kept getting "You are not connected to the internet" message if I tried to do it manually
Manually is one thing, and automatically another. You've confirmed that MSE beta will not manually update in a limited user account. But do the automatic updates work? Have you checked that? I'm guessing that they would work, or if they don't yet, they will when it gets out of beta. Generally, most people would let AV software automatically update, instead of getting defs manually, so that wouldn't be a big issue anyway. That is, if the automatic update works. For the automatic updates to work, it may require Windows Update to be set to automatic, as well.
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Limited User Accounts.
Software Restriction Policies. How about the short version? |
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Red GreenPremium
join:2003-01-22
Saint Louis, MO
1 edit | said by Tuulilapsi: quote:
I can verify that MSE will not auto update in XP using a limited account. I kept getting "You are not connected to the internet" message if I tried to do it manually
Manually is one thing, and automatically another. You've confirmed that MSE beta will not manually update in a limited user account. But do the automatic updates work? Have you checked that? I'm guessing that they would work, or if they don't yet, they will when it gets out of beta. Generally, most people would let AV software automatically update, instead of getting defs manually, so that wouldn't be a big issue anyway. That is, if the automatic update works. For the automatic updates to work, it may require Windows Update to be set to automatic, as well. It would not update at all in limited account. I noticed that definitions date would never change unless I logged into the admin account. A work around is to download the definitions files and add them manually.
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| Wow, now that is a bad design!  I hope someone has reported it as a bug by now. |
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join:2002-01-03
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| MS is aware of it -the auto updates should work under a limited account but they only check once a day - and not again. If the connection or server is unavailable when checking then that days update do not occur. Also, all services releated to autoupdate must be on, such as BITS, autoupdate, etc but the Windows update settings under control panel should not affect MSE. Manual updates under a limited account do not work yet either. This has been scheduled for a fix in the next beta release.
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