Hey All,

Been using ClamWin for a little bit and LOVE it. But I have a question that I have been unable to find an answer for:

On my MSVista machine, at bootup, I get a "Some startup applications Have been blocked by Windows." error ballon over the system tray. Upon inspection it is ClamWin that is being blocked.

Anyone know how to tell Vista that it is OK to run it. I have navigated down to the executable's properties and checked "Run as Administrator", to no avail.

Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Never seen that on any of my Vista/Server 2008 machines.
Please untick "Run As Administrator", clamtray does not need admin privileges.

You are correct. I unchecked it, and the problem went away. Thanks. Case closed.

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, hopefully it's not so old as to be forgotten by the original author.



This is not quite true. If ClamTray is not run as admin on Vista, then if it is used to run ClamWin to scan memory, then it won't detect problems in any admin processes. Run Windows Task Manager and look at the processes tab. You'll notice a "Show processes from all users" button. Take a look at the difference between the list of processes when that button is and isn't pressed. This is the difference between running clamtray as an administrator and not running it as an administrator.

I would strongly suggest that you run clamtray as an administrator so that when it runs any scheduled scans, it has the privileges to scan all processes and all files. If some virus/trojan does get past UAC and gets admin privileges, then the first thing it will do is make itself unreadable to anything without admin privileges.

This means, of course, that clamwin is useless to detect any malware that gets past UAC unless it also has admin privileges.