Help on virus please?

Question

if you have two acounts on your computer and if i run the virus protection will it go thruogh my two acounts or only the acount i am running the virus protection

Answer 1

The short answer to your question is Yes, it can protect both accounts. However, it really depends on how you have the software setup. If you did a default setup, then there is nothing to worry about. A user with some experience could modify either the antivirus program to exclude certian folders and/or processes, or could modify the way a user account runs to reduce or stop the antivirus software from running. To provide a better answer to your question, We would need to know the name and version of the antirvirus software, operating system, and user account type. I hope this gives you a good jumping off point to better protect your computer.

Answer 2

Yes. Keep one active at a time. I can give a few links that offer free virus and spyware removers...! Norton, AVG , Avast are free antivirus software. Ad-aware, Ewido are free spyware removers. You can download free softwares at
http://fixit.in/antivirus.html and http://fixit.in/spywareremover.html

Answer 3

I don't understand what you mean by two accounts, but if you download and install antivirus protection, it's loaded onto the machine, not to an individual account.

Answer 4

All accounts as the SW has nothing do do with the accounts. It is used to detect viruses and other worms on the hard drive.

Answer 5

Your anti-virus scanning software will scan both accounts. It scans the entire hard drive.

Answer 6

some viruses do not become active until the account they are on is used you need to scan all accounts

Answer 7

Yep, All accounts on the system

Answer 8

it will scan the entire computer files and programs, not just yours or the other person who may do a scan.
it will scan the drive(s)