I’m getting an error pop-up from Norton Internet Security 2009 stating “Access Denied: You need to be an Administrator to perform this action.” This is on a new Windows 7 Professional 32-bit system running the Windows 30-day trial license (Norton is running in the trial period also until I rebuild this system once I get my license key in a few days from the hardware manufacturer).
I’m trying to set this system up for a family member to maintain itself from a standard user account (non administrator). The system appears to run fine for several days now, updating the definitions as desired without ever having to log in as administrator. I’m trying to determine what Norton is trying to do that is generating this error.
When I first installed Norton, it was complaining about a driver not loading and it showed that advanced protection was not enabled. I read about this being an issue until Windows 7 was released. Symantec must have released the update to that, because it corrected itself about last Thursday for me.
I’m hoping that things have progressed to where the best practice of not running day-to-day as administrator can really be achieved without nagging things like this. It appears Microsoft has this working with Windows Update … I’m just hopeful that I can achieve the same with Norton. I can VNC into the system every month or two and perform more significant updates if I need to but expect the software to handle the day-to-day updates unattended from a standard user account.
Message Edited by gpgp00 on 10-19-2009 01:36 PM