Malaware Bytes - Looking for Admin rights?

BROS · 2009-01-09 09:18:35

I just downloaded MWB. It has a set up icon on my desktop, click that, it asks me to select a language, click that, it tells me I need Administration rights to open the programme and promptly shuts the programme down??? :eek: I am the sole user, and I log on as Admin so where's the problem here??? I loaded a virtual sand…

09-01-2009 10:18AM

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BROS

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I just downloaded MWB. It has a set up icon on my desktop, click that, it asks me to select a language, click that, it tells me I need Administration rights to open the programme and promptly shuts the programme down??? :eek:

I am the sole user, and I log on as Admin so where's the problem here???

I loaded a virtual sand box recently, could that have sopmething to do with it???

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#2 09-01-2009 10:38AM

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Vista? program aren't given administration rights unless you right-click and 'run as administrator'.

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#3 09-01-2009 11:02AM

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Thanks for the prompt reply leninbenjamin, I should have mentioned it's running XP.
I did as advised and got this error message

"Setup was unable to create the directory “F:\Documents and Settings\Admin\is-PDNB6.TMP” Error 5: Access is denied"

Note: Previous the owner has F Drive set up instead of D Drive

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