Running SEP scans with the SYSTEM account

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Published on 2012-10-30T04:12:51Z Indexed on 2012/10/30 5:05 UTC
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I need to run Symantec Endpoint Protection scans on Windows 7 systems using the SYSTEM account. I know that I can run DoScan.exe to manually run a scan, and this works fine using a regular user account. Unfortunately, when I try to run DoScan as SYSTEM, the application exits immediately without running a scan.

Is there a way that I can get this to work, or another application besides DoScan.exe that I should be using?

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