Our PC is set up with two users. If I install a spam blocker program on “my side” will also function on the other user’s side?
in Windows a program can be specified to run for all users when installed by the administrator account.
And if it’s something which runs at kernel/system level (like antivirus software) it’s likely that it’ll run regardless of who logs in.
In most cases all that’s doing is determining whether the Start menu shortcut is placed under the installing user’s account (i.e. Administrator) or under the “All Users” section, causing it to appear on every user’s Start menu.
For something which runs “backstage” like a spam filter there are several possibilities depending on how the programmers implemented the filter. Most likely it’ll apply to all incoming email, but I can think of several ways to implement it where it’d be operating only per user.
If it has a bunch of settings I also see where some customers would prefer it to be separately configurable per-user. So while *installing *it probably applies to all users, the OP may need to run the configuration tool separately for each user. Or alter the configuration of each user’s email client to consume email from the filter, not directly from the external mail provider.
Installed programs do not block spam on web mail systems.
Antivirus type spamblocker just installs for the entire system, which means for an email program like Outlook or Thunderbird,
but other anti spam programs were program and user specific, they were configured for each use, so the install may be done, but then it won’t be in use until configured for that user.
So there’s three options, for the various anti-spam software.
- yes
- installed but needs configure
- no, needs to be installed again… or the one installer does both install and config.