Hi there, I have a new and different question from my usual please help questions..i still want some advice and will always need help.. I have a computer with two seperate user accounts both have administrative rights.. when i added spybot and spyblaster and ewido and other programs, and i updated them in one account.. Do I HAVE To update and scan them in each account to have the whole computer protected. if i do all the updates and scaning in safe mode does this protect both users.. does scan disk and defrag clean up boith users accounts when in used in one or other account? thanks i await the reply i am confused about this.. dont want to be doing a defrag three times one for each user and one in safe mode??? thanks gemma

"when i added spybot and spyblaster and ewido and other programs, and i updated them in one account.. Do I HAVE To update and scan them in each account to have the whole computer protected?" Look here for what some can do. http://spywarewarrior.com/viewtopic.php?t=5722 Don't have/use xp, so there may be an answer here about scandisk and defrag. http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/118282.html If I find more info I will add more links.

simply put, spybot, scandisk and defrag are programs that operate on a system-wide basis. if you update spybot and run it in one account, your other account will also be scanned, similarly with scandisk and defrag. the only exception to this is if you have multiple hard drives, in which case you'll need to do each drive separately. there is no need to defrag 3 times if you dont have 3 hard drives.