Daft Dialogue Box

This has to be the daftest dialogue box I have come across in a long time.

I run my wife on her PC as a User, with standard User privileges – why wouldn’t I? But every day when VirusScan decides to check for an updated signature she gets this dialogue box.

I haven’t done any detailed research into the reason for this dialogue box, but there doesn’t seem to be any sensible way to change this situation. It astounds me that a security supplier would choose to make their update process require Administrator privileges. By installing the software and configuring it (as the Administrator) I made the choice that I wanted the updates down-loading and installing, I don’t want to have to log-on as an Administrator every day to make sure the updates happen. But also, and almost as importantly, Sue doesn’t want to have an annoying pop-up sat on her screen all day every day (if you click “Continue what I was doing” it just comes back”).

We have such a long way to go as an industry to get people off the drug of ‘Administrator’ privileges.