most spyware-laden computer you've ever seen?

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NTB

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Just finished reading this and the article it linked to, and I was curious: What is the worst computer you've seen? How many things did adaware, spybot, or whatever program you used come up with? The worst I've seen in a while was a work/study computer up at school that I checked a few weeks ago; adaware came up with 1300+ objects. A friend of mine said one of his buddies ran a scan and came up with 15- or 1600, I forget the exact number. How do people get *so* badly infected with this stuff? Do they just click "yes" on every little box that comes up?

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My wife & 15 year old daughter never cease to amaze me:(

I am in favor of public flogging of companies that write spyware etc:|
 
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things are becoming more and more automated, that's how it get onto the PC.

Why so many? It's there hope to "spam" your PC so you won't find all of them. If you go into Ur registry alone and search for the msmsg.exe (I think that's the stupid MS Messenger program that nobody use) and you'll find a load of it.

Anyway, so just 1 single spyware can place a load of sh*t in you registry alone. Then it place itself all over your PC also.

Simple way to stop it is stop surving the web.

Spyware that I think awsomely the best is "Spysweeper". I had a "hijacker" that hijacked my IE search. Everytime I put in something like yahoo.com... it would go to it's search engine and nicely search. I just want to go strait to yahoo. I know it's a website. Anyway, spybot and all other software did not catch it except for Spysweeper. So Sweeper is for me. :)
 
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CraigRT

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My colleague at work told me one of his buddy's PC's was not connecting to the net, and running like a total dog... so he ran the latest version of Ad Aware, full system scan, came up with something just plain stupid like 6000..... most I have ever seen with my own eyes was a tad shy of 1000... unbelievable!
 
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My computer had 14 viruses and over 1000 things in spyware S&D/ Ad-aware after I let my brother on my computer. Needless to say I kicked him off for good.
 
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Highest one i ever ran across was a box about a month ago. Adaware scan picked up 1754 objects. :Q Cobbled a box together for my youngest son(12yrs) a few weeks ago and in less than 24 hrs after i gave it to him an adaware scan picked up 350 objects.:disgust: Needless to say Dad gave him an extensive talk about what to click or install and what not to. Turned out the majority of it originated in a kids game site.
 
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My friend who has problems admitting that he doies stuff wrong knows nothing about computers. He always says his brother dlds virus's but i know they are his fault. He had over 10,000 virus's and it kept going. I got sick of waiting because Norton wasn't even half done. I got pissed off and just formatted his HDD.

-Kevin
 
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forumJunkie

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3000+ (friend's mother)..... i turned on the computer and i got machine gunned

(POP UP x 150) / sec
 
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Kev

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my parents & sisters computer had 13 spyware processes running when i looked at it on sunday. ad aware only recognized 1 of them, and whenever I tried closing one of them out, one of the other programs would restart it. i'm just going to tank the entire system and install win 2k and firefox
 
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NTB

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/me reads thread....

After that, I have only one thing to say: HOLY CR@P! And I thought a few hundred was bad...

Nate
 
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My uncle owns an IT buisness in the DC area and still likes to to go out into the field, and when I was helping him out with some server clean up and maintenance crap, we stumbled upon a buisness server that had about 1,000,000 malicious files on it. Very large buisness server, but still, thats a hell of a lot of spyware and malware. Couldnt really fix the server it was so bad. Had to replace it.
 
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Originally posted by: Farvacola
My uncle owns an IT buisness in the DC area and still likes to to go out into the field, and when I was helping him out with some server clean up and maintenance crap, we stumbled upon a buisness server that had about 1,000,000 malicious files on it. Very large buisness server, but still, thats a hell of a lot of spyware and malware. Couldnt really fix the server it was so bad. Had to replace it.
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Something about this doesn't make sense to me...I can understand end-user systems getting spyware on them, but how do you do it on a server? Viruses would make sense, especially if it's an e-mail server; but adware? And why would you have to replace the server? As long as everything is backed up like it should be, wipe out the OS and re-install it. (I admit I don't know much about big buisness servers; I've never had to deal with them. So maybe there is something I'm missing).

Nate
 
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Originally posted by: NTB
Originally posted by: Farvacola
My uncle owns an IT buisness in the DC area and still likes to to go out into the field, and when I was helping him out with some server clean up and maintenance crap, we stumbled upon a buisness server that had about 1,000,000 malicious files on it. Very large buisness server, but still, thats a hell of a lot of spyware and malware. Couldnt really fix the server it was so bad. Had to replace it.
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Something about this doesn't make sense to me...I can understand end-user systems getting spyware on them, but how do you do it on a server? Viruses would make sense, especially if it's an e-mail server; but adware? And why would you have to replace the server? As long as everything is backed up like it should be, wipe out the OS and re-install it. (I admit I don't know much about big buisness servers; I've never had to deal with them. So maybe there is something I'm missing).

Nate
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well i meant had to wipe everything, not replace. It was pretty bad. Viruses were defeinetly the majority of what was found, but youd be surprised when it comes to malware and where it can go.
 
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lobadobadingdong

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most I've come accross was ~4500-5000 items in adaware on the full scan from the administrator account, and average around 200 on each of the other 3 accounts, then I ran spybot on each and found an additional 5-10 items on each account. I never thought to get the exaact numbers but wow.

btw this XP home system wasn't even patched to sp1 :shocked:

it was so bad it actually crippled all IP connectivity after I removed them, and one of them dropped a trojen virus after the spyware was removed (I ran a full virus scan before and after, the virus was not there before)
 
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just ran ad-ware 39 found all tracking cookies.

Have been running a DSL line 24/7 since the lastest SP2 was released.

Oh, did I mention running firefox
 
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Kev

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Originally posted by: bobalong
just ran ad-ware 39 found all tracking cookies.

Have been running a DSL line 24/7 since the lastest SP2 was released.

Oh, did I mention running firefox
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they're just tracking cookies, they don't bog down your system

 
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