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Doug DeCarlo
How funny. I posted about this same issue just a few
minutes later ("MSAS cant save new settings").
Let's keep this in a single thread..
Below is what I wrote:
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Hi,
I'm running the latest version of MSAS in XP Prof on a
number of machines (some are part of a domain, some aren't)
with 3 or 4 regular users on each.
When non-admin users log in, the same threat warnings come
up over and over. For instance, I'm constantly asked about
whether to allow/block the MS shell browser ui library.
This is pretty darn annoying.
Oh, I did turn off 'show alert if an ignored threat...' in
the alert settings. Both blocked and allowed alerts are
enabled.
If you look at the error log file, you find many entries
like this (for several different .gcd files):
-2147467259::Method '~' of object '~' failed/C:\Program
Files\Microsoft
AntiSpyware\gcAgentsDataStoreData.gcd::gcasDtServ:modData:G
lobalSave::5/14/2005
3:07:53 AM:1.0.509
I'm guessing this means it tried to save the dismissals and
allow/block preferences but couldn't. Admin users don't
generate these errors. Granting write access to all users
for these files does fix this issue, but it's a REALLY dumb
idea. As a workaround, I just change the protections
temporarily, run MSAS, then set the protections back. This
at least clears out the backlog of current warnings, etc...
Basically, a very annoying "learning mode".
Is there some more reasonable solution to this? (Without
making everyone an admin user, that is...)
Also, it seems these preferences are remembered across
users on a machine. Is that right? If that's the case, it
seems like you don't want to save these preferences unless
the user knows what they're doing. But the problem is that
many of these warnings aren't ever encountered by an admin
user.. Ugh.
Any help will be appreciated.
Best,
- Doug
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minutes later ("MSAS cant save new settings").
Let's keep this in a single thread..
Below is what I wrote:
--------
Hi,
I'm running the latest version of MSAS in XP Prof on a
number of machines (some are part of a domain, some aren't)
with 3 or 4 regular users on each.
When non-admin users log in, the same threat warnings come
up over and over. For instance, I'm constantly asked about
whether to allow/block the MS shell browser ui library.
This is pretty darn annoying.
Oh, I did turn off 'show alert if an ignored threat...' in
the alert settings. Both blocked and allowed alerts are
enabled.
If you look at the error log file, you find many entries
like this (for several different .gcd files):
-2147467259::Method '~' of object '~' failed/C:\Program
Files\Microsoft
AntiSpyware\gcAgentsDataStoreData.gcd::gcasDtServ:modData:G
lobalSave::5/14/2005
3:07:53 AM:1.0.509
I'm guessing this means it tried to save the dismissals and
allow/block preferences but couldn't. Admin users don't
generate these errors. Granting write access to all users
for these files does fix this issue, but it's a REALLY dumb
idea. As a workaround, I just change the protections
temporarily, run MSAS, then set the protections back. This
at least clears out the backlog of current warnings, etc...
Basically, a very annoying "learning mode".
Is there some more reasonable solution to this? (Without
making everyone an admin user, that is...)
Also, it seems these preferences are remembered across
users on a machine. Is that right? If that's the case, it
seems like you don't want to save these preferences unless
the user knows what they're doing. But the problem is that
many of these warnings aren't ever encountered by an admin
user.. Ugh.
Any help will be appreciated.
Best,
- Doug
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