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    Anyone else suffering from lack of permission errors? (Not UAC)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by catacylsm, Mar 21, 2010.

  1. catacylsm

    catacylsm Notebook Prophet

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    Hey everyone,

    Basically the past few weeks i have been thinking that i have slowly been loosing my pc to something, seems all the permissions were re-written to something else, this disallowed applications to perhaps update or even install for that matter,

    Well today i tracked it down, thankfully its nothing allarming but just something diverting the permissions for single use,

    I'm wondering if any other users are finding this happening to them? take steam for example, it'd install then tell me the steam.exe had dissapeared (And had access violations on it.), this could happen or it could proceed to update, and fail all the time due to permissions again.

    Its really just a case of anyone else having this really? i can tell you how to fix it.

    Windows 7
    64 bit Pro here,


    Cheers,
    Cata.
     
    catacylsm, Mar 21, 2010
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  2. xTank Jones16x

    xTank Jones16x PC Elitist

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    Running 32-bit Ultimate here, and haven't had a problem.

    I have UAC turned on and it never gives me problems (not like Vista anyway).

    What did you find that was diverting the permissions? Sure it isn't a virus?
     
    xTank Jones16x, Mar 21, 2010
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  3. catacylsm

    catacylsm Notebook Prophet

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    Strangely enough, permission was diverted to the trustedinstaller, which is darn right stupid, takes a while to set everything right again, especially with full HDD's.
     
    catacylsm, Mar 22, 2010
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  4. Pirx

    Pirx Notebook Virtuoso

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    Something is fishy here. There has to be some process that actively changes the permissions on the affected folders. No such process exists on a standard Windows installation. Are you certain that the permissions were changed? If that is indeed the case, then the only conclusion is that you have some foreign program on your machine that's doing that. Some of the more advanced Trojans actually do harden infected systems against further infection, and what you see (if indeed that is what you are seeing) might be a symptom of such actions.

    So, in contrast to what you wrote above, this is quite alarming.
     
    Pirx, Mar 22, 2010
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