According to a report by Avecto, 92% of last year's Windows critical vulnerabilities were not exploitable when the user was logged into a standard or limited user account.
Question is, if you decide to run Norton's Full System Scan as a non-administrator, does it really scan fully--including the adminstrator portions on your machine?
Do you mean a scheduled full system scan? Or running a manual full system scan?
Hi, Calls.
I didn't know that there was a difference. Both scans would still be considered true "full system", right?
"Scheduled" or "manual", I'd think, even if run from a non-administrator account, the Full System Scan would be just as thorough--again, including the "adminstrator" portions--as the one run from an adminstrator account. I would just like to know if this thinking is correct.
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I not sure. But your question made me curious too.
I run my PC from a limited user account and I have full system scams scheduled to run automatically
You may want to post this as a seperate question to get more feedback
Maybe in the norton internet security section of the forums
Manual scans are limited to the privileges of the user that initiates the scan. A full system scan run under an administrator account will therefore scan more files than will a scan run as a limited user. I am not entirely certain about scheduled scans, but I believe they run with administrator privileges and are independent of any users who may be logged in at the time of the scan.
Possibly a silly question, but is it a concern if a scan run while logged in as an administrator scans less files? I ran a full scan while logged in as an admin a few days ago and it scanned about 2500 files fewer than the full scan I had run two days before while logged in as a limited user.
Sorry to derail. I thought it was curious at the time but hadn’t really given it much thought until I noticed this thread.
roane wrote:
Possibly a silly question, but is it a concern if a scan run while logged in as an administrator scans less files? I ran a full scan while logged in as an admin a few days ago and it scanned about 2500 files fewer than the full scan I had run two days before while logged in as a limited user.
Sorry to derail. I thought it was curious at the time but hadn't really given it much thought until I noticed this thread.
Hi,
Not a silly question. The Norton software is aware of the files it scans. If there has been no change in that file since the last scan the program skips over the file.
Stay well and surf safe
SendOfJive wrote:Manual scans are limited to the privileges of the user that initiates the scan. A full system scan run under an administrator account will therefore scan more files than will a scan run as a limited user.
I see. So basically when deciding to run a Full System Scan, it's best to always do it under the administrator account. That way, it will even scan everything in the limited user's account. Thanks.
Here's an older post by a Symantec employee, Sagar_S - http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/run-full-scan-on-admin-or-user-account/m-p/535688/highlight/true#M172439
Another from the from Volunteer, yogesh_mohan - http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/Scanning-for-threat-s-etc-in-Safe-Mode/m-p/54116/highlight/true#M28407
According to a report by Avecto, 92% of last year's Windows critical vulnerabilities were not exploitable when the user was logged into a standard or limited user account.