Expert: Carolyn Meinel - 2/28/2006

Question
I've been using Adaware for a few years and found it quite good.But suddenly I've realised completely by accident that you need to run it on each account on the computer. I ran it on my account and found some spyware deleted them,I then ran it on my sons account and found some more and finally on my wifes account and found some more.We are all administrators. Have I been using the program incorrectly all these years  

Answer
Thank you for your report on Adaware. You taught me something new! I use Adaware, too, but only have one user account on my Windows XP computer. Like you, I assumed that running it with administrator privileges would have been enough. So congratulations for having the "accidental" creativity that led you to test Adaware by running it in each account.

I suggest that you report this flaw in Adaware to the manufacturer, as it is pretty darn serious. This report would be better coming from you than me because you can answer any questions they might have about how you found this flaw and what version and build of Adaware you are using.