help please! pc re-directing online banking to dodgy site

JustPassingBy

VoucherMan wrote: »

A few years ago I set up Limited accounts for the kids on my pc. There were so many programs that wouldn't run I ended up changing them to administrator

So fundamentally you passed control of your machine over to someone else.

tronator

VoucherMan wrote: »

A few years ago I set up Limited accounts for the kids on my pc. There were so many programs that wouldn't run I ended up changing them to administrator

I would have uninstalled the software, returned it (if bought) and used a different one. If nobody complains to the company which programmed the software, they will keep programming this cr*p. If there is no alternative to this program, you could have changed the permissions of this specific program folder and maybe the corresponding registry keys. There's not a single logical reason why someone would need to write into the program directory in order to run a software, program and data should always be separated. I've even seen software where installation directories etc. are hard coded ("C:\Program files\" instead of "%programfiles%")...

VoucherMan

JustPassingBy wrote: »

So fundamentally you passed control of your machine over to someone else.

Yes, but at the time they were only 6 or 7 & just wanted to play games offline - wasn't even connected to the internet so I wasn't too bothered.