Locking a user account down.

Hello guys, my uncle's laptop has been repeatedly by scareware software. After having to clean it up 3 times in less than a month I've told them that the only antimalware software of the computer are MSE and Malwarebytes and everything else is fake and they should not install them, yet yesterday they got infected again . I had already set the UAC to its highest level before but that seemingly didn't do anything so now I have dropped his account to basic user instead of admin and I'm trying to set policies so that infection would be difficult. Go any ideas? I assume that a basic user doesn't have access to program files nor can it make changes to the registry right?

 

Dropping the account to a user account should of been the first thing you did. You should be fine now.

 

Hopefully.

 

Yeah, I really wish Windows Setup would force people to create a clearly delineated administrator account, and all the other accounts on one screen.

 

not just hopefully. It will.

 

Oh, that would make too much sense. You can pull up all the threads about UAC. PPL were up in arms. Such a change would ruin everything!!!! Lions and tigers and bears oh my!

 

:laugh: Oh believe me, I was there in many of those threads defending UAC,if there's one thing we all found out from Windows Vista it's that Windows users hate change with a passion. No wonder Microsoft's scared to even try something slightly new or break backwards compatibility with something...

 

Yeah, anytime Microsoft changes Windows to benefit the users, people threaten to sue. I makes me want to punch people.

 

Make em pay.
Fastest way to make them wise up.
If that is not possible take your own sweet time to fix it to inconvenience them, second fastest way to wisen them up.
Lastly if it still doesn't works smash the computer with a sledge hammer and tell them the virus did it...
Cure for stubborn user stupidity should be applied to user not to system.