lots of spyware

[Mookow]

I currently attend CSU. I have a job as a IS&T tech, fixing all the computers that people manage to break on campus. Anyway, I'm in the lab, coding for one of my classes, the PC seems to be a little slow, so I run a virus scan and AdAware6. Check out the results of the AAW scan:

Jumping Jesus Christ on a Pogo Stick

Admittedly most of it is cookies and plain files, but... damn thats a lot of them.

EDIT: In retrospect, it might not be so bad for a public PC (though it all was accumulated inside a week), but I'm used to running AAW roughly every other day and getting maybe 4-7 cookies, so 800+ was way outside the normal range.

 

[MaxDepth]

Uhm, I'm not letting you fix my computer. That's for sure.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

My cousin ran that on his mom's computer:

24 processes identified.
over 100 registry keys
over 2000 items identified.

Thier system was so buggered up, IE wouldn't even display the address bar. And on loading IE, three popups would come up without doing anything else.

That screenshot was tame in comparison.

 

[GasX]

800 cookies on a public computer is not much to sneeze at...

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth
Uhm, I'm not letting you fix my computer. That's for sure.

Good.

After re-reading what I wrote, I guess it was a little unclear. I didnt run the AAW because the PC was slow, I ran the virus checker for that (and there were something like 18 virii (some were multiple instances of the same virus)) on it, and the removal of those + reboot solved the slowness problem, but on general priciples I ran the AAW. I have seen a lot more viruses on one school PC than that (last week I removed 72 from a prof's PC), but I run AAW on my personal machines all the time, so I never let it get as bad as it did in this case.

A simple reboot probably would have solved the problem by itself, but I knew there were probably viruses all over the PC, so I scanned.

EDIT: Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention... this PCs were ghosted a week ago, which is part of why it surprised me

 

[Kaervak]

Damn that's bad. I'm actually thinking about going to CSU. Now I know to be wary about the computers there.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Kaervak
Damn that's bad. I'm actually thinking about going to CSU. Now I know to be wary about the computers there.

Tell me if you decide to, I might be able to hook you up with a job in the IS&T department. As long as you can deal with very, very computer illiterate people w/o getting frustrated, its a good job. The techs who go out on calls and have to log off the user (when they arent around) and log in with an account with admin rights now have to go into the registry and change the default log-in name and domain back to the regular users, since before this was done about 60% of the time the users would call in and say we didnt fix it, just messed it up more, since they could no longer log in. Of course, they were typing their PW in without changing either the username or the domain back to the regular domain....

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: Kaervak
Damn that's bad. I'm actually thinking about going to CSU. Now I know to be wary about the computers there.

Tell me if you decide to, I might be able to hook you up with a job in the IS&T department. As long as you can deal with very, very computer illiterate people w/o getting frustrated, its a good job. The techs who go out on calls and have to log off the user (when they arent around) and log in with an account with admin rights now have to go into the registry and change the default log-in name and domain back to the regular users, since before this was done about 60% of the time the users would call in and say we didnt fix it, just messed it up more, since they could no longer log in. Of course, they were typing their PW in without changing either the username or the domain back to the regular domain....

Cool beans. If I do actually go there, I'll let you know.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Kaervak

Originally posted by: Mookow

Originally posted by: Kaervak
Damn that's bad. I'm actually thinking about going to CSU. Now I know to be wary about the computers there.

Tell me if you decide to, I might be able to hook you up with a job in the IS&T department. As long as you can deal with very, very computer illiterate people w/o getting frustrated, its a good job. The techs who go out on calls and have to log off the user (when they arent around) and log in with an account with admin rights now have to go into the registry and change the default log-in name and domain back to the regular users, since before this was done about 60% of the time the users would call in and say we didnt fix it, just messed it up more, since they could no longer log in. Of course, they were typing their PW in without changing either the username or the domain back to the regular domain....

Cool beans. If I do actually go there, I'll let you know.

What are the chances that you will be attending?

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: Mookow
What are the chances that you will be attending?

Right now about 50/50. I'm looking into the mechanical engineering program there. Going to try for the winter semester. Just have to talk with someone there and see if I have all the required things to get in and go over the financial aspect of it.