[pchelpers] user accounts and malware removal

Hi

I just realised i don't really know anything about user accounts in XP. 
I had helped a family get rid of trojans and other malware, and they now 
phoned me to say that these or other trojans etc. were still there when 
they restarted the computer using other accounts and that they had had 
to rerun the cleanup programs separately on all the accounts.

Since i don't have more than one account on my computer, i'd forgotten 
to check whether other accounts besides the parents' account had 
administrator rights. I now discovered that all the accounts had 
administrator rights. Well, i quickly fixed that over the phone, but now 
i have 2 questions:

Is it normal that if one has more than one administrator account that 
running antispyware, antivirus, antitrojan, and other cleanup programs 
on one of these admin accounts won't search and clean the others? In 
this case, none of the (admin) accounts had passwords.

So, i fixed it so that this family now only has one admin account, and 
all the accounts they normally use to access the computer no longer have 
admin rights. Will it now be enough to run antispyware and other cleanup 
programs on only the admin account, i.e. will this now give the cleanup 
programs access to the entire computer?

Thanks, Ekhart



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