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Old 1st April 2009 | 07:09
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boofhead
 
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Administrator Privileges

I tried to open a program that was to check for and remove the Conficker worm (sysclean by trend micro), but my computer said I did not have administrator privileges. In fact it does not even give me that message now, but refuses to run at all. I checked and the name my computer runs under is supposed to be an administrator. I was using Mozilla Firefox and the computer uses Vista. I checked for the worm and according to Microsoft if I get updates and can download virus protection I do not have the infection, although I thought that it was preventing me from running the protection program.
Has anyone got a suggestion for checking and removing this worm, and how can I be sure I do have administrator privileges, or restore them if I do not?
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