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.