Largest amount of "bugs",trojans/viruses found/eliminated

ScrapSilicon

Lifer
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have a dell here and so far have nailed 2.5 gb of them (various ones got tired of the alerts just set it to delete all found :( ) ..anyone encounter such a vast amount as this ?
 

mad0maxx

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Sounds like those articles I read about companies testing anti virus programs for effectiveness LoL
 
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Nothing quite that bad, though when I was helping set up spyware protection on the computers at a friend's game store where they had a pay-to-play LAN, I found out that one machine had been set-up as a covert server for a filesharing program. Can't remember the program specifically, it's one of the filesharing programs that has since fallen by the wayside.
 

gsellis

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Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon
have a dell here and so far have nailed 2.5 gb of them (various ones got tired of the alerts just set it to delete all found :( ) ..anyone encounter such a vast amount as this ?

Sounds like a world record to me.
 
Oct 4, 2004
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2 and a half gigs of spyware, trojans and viruses!!!! Was this computer even functional? Did the OS take 6 minutes to load? Did right-clicking the desktop and hitting refresh cause it to hang? WTF!
 

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Lifer
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Originally posted by: mad0maxx
Sounds like those articles I read about companies testing anti virus programs for effectiveness LoL

tried booting it up to winxp home but it wouldn't after trying for 30 minutes ..so have the 80gb harddrive slaved ...not sure which dl client they were using but it was very effective at dling :D
 

amdskip

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I've seen worse when I worked in the dorms, crap cleaner is amazing at cleaning machines.