Friday, March 18, 2005
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I've seen plenty of hype about this product over the past months and today I decided to give in and give it a try.  I frequently hear people recommending that I run a spyware utility to make sure that my system is not infected with spyware, but haven't done it for one reason or another.

I downloaded and installed the utility.  I don't run my machine as an administrator, so in order to install it I had to run it as an administrator.  Rather than running the application as THE administrator account, I temporarily promoted my account to the Administrators group (through a slick tool by Aaron Margosis).  Interestingly, the application errored out upon first run as me as well as when I attempted to run it as Administrator.  I had to run it as me promoted to the Administrators group (I suspect that this is because the default owner of the application was me as an admin rather than the Administrators group).  Once I successfully started it, I performed an analysis of my system and I'm happy to see that I had ZERO spyware applications and registry keys/values on my machine.

I can now go along happily and feel even more secure in my computing ;)

Friday, March 18, 2005 8:52:00 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [0]  |  Trackback
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