Requesting help with AVG and secondary users in XP

[Mope]

My wife was checking her email through the web in Opera instead of the email client I set up for her and downloaded klez.

Anyway, she was pretty excited about figuring out how to right-click, resume the download when it stopped without having to ask me what the problem was . Then she ran it...

I couldn't figure out why avg (and kerio, for that matter) didn't send her an alert that the file was a virus. I swithed back to my account and...there was the alert on my desktop! I changed her account to an admin account and redid the steps she did and still no alert (then I explained the importance of not opening attachments from unknown senders, using the email client, etc. !).

Does anyone have any ideas why AVG won't display a virus alert on her desktop but instead places it on mine? I can't find any settings related to this in the control center. I haven't searched on google yet because I don't even know a suitable description of the problem, any help is appreciated.

[MacGyver]

Fast user switching is really unsupported in XP and most apps are not built to deal with it properly. I'm having unrelated issues at home where my wife and I share an XP machine with fast user switching enabled.

Instead of AVG, try Grisoft AntiVir instead. www.free-av.com

We use it at home, but we haven't got a virus yet so don't know if it will work properly or not. I'll do some testing later and get back to you in this thread.

[craigmodius]

Well if you want to test out your anti-virus program you can download a test virus from the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research at the bottom of the page here

It is basically files that Antivirus vendors have agreed to call a virus for purposes of testing their software.

It is not harmfull or even a virus.

Found that link from a NAV readme file.

AVG 6 detects it as such so you might want to check it out.

cheers~

[Mope]

Thanks for both of your help. I will check both of those suggestions out.

[confus-ed]

Originally posted by MacGyver
...Instead of AVG, try Grisoft AntiVir instead. www.free-av.com

Is this confus-ed business contagious !?

Don't Grisoft make AVG ?? these unpronounceable guys - H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH - make Anti-Vir ????

AVG places the alert on your desktop as fast user switching leaves your 'profile' active, it puts the alert on the desktop of the profile that originally called it .... like MacGuyver says its not properly designed to accomodate fast user switching ... but I think if you had installed it as Administrator it would have worked .... most likely you installed it from your own profile?

[Mope]

Originally posted by confus-ed
... but I think if you had installed it as Administrator it would have worked .... most likely you installed it from your own profile?

I prolly did install it like that. I'll fix that next week when I get my new drive.