help with spybot

i remember when i first installed it it had something about if u wanted it to scan everyone or just yours i chose just mine to save time but i now want to have it scan everyone's. how can i have it do this i tried uninstalling and reinstalling but the thing never came up again. please help.

 

I think you need to do the following after Uninstalling the program

delete the Spybot - Search & Destroy folder in the Application Data folder
which is in your profile folder under Documents and Settings
and then re-install

clean out your registry if you still have problems

 

how do i do the registry thing

 

Hello,
You will need a registry cleaner, like CCleaner or RegSeeker.
But be careful, some entries might be false positives. Make backups before you delete found invalid entries.
One of the best programs I found to do the job is TuneUp Utilities 20xx, 2004 or 2006. You can download the evaluation version for 30 days and clean your files, registry, optimize the registry, defrag the page file and more. If you like it, you might wanna invest and buy it. Very nice program.
Mrk

 

If you were to re-install Spybot you would see that there was no selection of "scan everyone's". The reason being is that Spybot by default scans the entire system for malware except cookies and temporary internet files....which is only scanned for the user that is currently signed on. Perhaps you are recalling that Adaware had that as a selection during install

Below is a link to a post by PepiMK(Spybot S&D Developer) commenting about this matter.

This post---> Total Scan?, A single scan for all users Options

 

k. its odd cause my bro had coolwebsearch on his account and i could not get rid of it and the computer froze and when i scanned on my account it didn't come up