I have been working a bit this week to help secure my wife’s laptop incase any foul code gets executed on it. In the process of making her account a “Limited Account”, I quickly learned Norton AntiVirus’s Automatic LiveUpdate feature wouldn’t work. Okay, so that isn’t extremely terrible, I can hope she remembers to manually run it from time to time… by why do that? Why force her to have to start yet another new routine?
So, I got a hold of Norton’s Support, hopefully, they could explain to me why it wasn’t going to work, and their response was LiveUpdate cannot run under anything but an “Administrator” account. That I found hard to believe… As I could run LiveUpdate manually under my wife’s username and password. So I told them “Thanks for the help.” and I went on my way of figuring out a better method for approaching this.
Now, I am not going to say my approach works under every scenario, but so far it has shown promising results. What I did was set up a scheduled task to run the LUALL.exe at 2:00 AM on Saturday’s. The best part, is you can set it up to run as a specific user, though currently I have it running under my wife’s username and it ran just fine this morning. However, if a problem were to arise, obviously I can change it to login as the Administrator to run.
Hopefully others find this useful, as I know it would have saved me some searching. Enjoy.
I thought the hosting company I was with originally gave me a ton of options, but DreamHost, is absolutely brilliant. They wrote their own Control Panel, instead of using the pre-built cPanel software that many companies like to pay for, and they pretty much gave me full control over my portion of the server.
From setting up multiple accounts to login to the server and control each web site I host (likewise for MySQL), to defining how certain websites should run, be it PHP 4 or PHP 5.
Currently, I have no criticism for the company, other than their UI for the control panel, being a bit out-dated and the left navigation menus do not remember which ones were open from page to page (might want to consider turning that left navigation into a frame to prevent that — just a request).
Personally, I love how they setup the website directories when using SSH. I logged in, thinking I would fine public_html/ for my main site, and public_html/secondWebSite/ for my second hosted website, instead I find this: cpradio.org/ and secondWebSite/ both listed under the same root directory. AWESOME! I always hated having my hosted websites under my main directory, and they solved that beautifully.
DreamHost, keep up the good work, from what rumor has stated, it seems at the end of this month you will be unleashing numerous new features along with a network correction and though the network seems stable right now to me, I can’t wait to see what you turn out next.
For all those interested in learning more about DreamHost, or possibly wanting to sign up, visit them by going to:
http://www.dreamhost.com/
Also, to show how much I really enjoy DreamHost, I had a promotion code created to give anyone 47 dollars off their year term or their two year term. Just enter “47OffThanksMatt” in the promotion code box, and you will automatically get 47 dollars off your total.