4 replies to this topic

[Jamin4u]

Does MBAM need to be run as administrator in Vista?

If so, what would happen if it wasn't run as administrator and all it found was removed?

[IT Expert]

Yes run as admin, however it should auto run it as admin. If not theres a chance the items may not be deleted.

Just right click on the exe and click run as administrator and then update and rescan to be safe

[Jamin4u]

Thanks for the response.

The reason I ask is a friend didn't run it as administrator.

When the scan started it was working (spinning cursor) for the first 15 seconds, and then the time started advancing.

It didn't show any items found until the end of the scan.

Seven items were removed from active memory, the registry and so on. (Rapid Antivirus)

This is not what I experience on my Vista system. Maybe it was because of the infection.

I did tell her to reboot, update, and rescan running as administrator.

No items found.

[IT Expert]

Your welcome, yeah the best way to tell if a program in vista is already going to run it as the admin is on the icon with have a shield on it, this means its going to run as admin. Sounds like it was already running it as admin if no items where found second time by

[Jamin4u]

So thats what that little bugger is for.