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Spybot S&D: Record for most spyware found?

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JustAnAverageGuy

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What's the record for number of spyware programs\files\registry keys\etc you've found either in your system or a system you've worked on using either Spybot or AdAware.

I found 1056 using Spybot on a friend's system who had a tendency to click yes on certain sites. Yours?

Most I've found on mine was 9.
 
The first time I ran it, I found something like 8 programs. I haven't gotten anything since I began using Mozilla/Firefox about a year and a half ago.
 
My sister's computer. In a 3 month period from when it had been gotten brand new. 124 instances of spyware programs (not counting tracking cookies, etc). Symantec found 24 separate Virii too.

ZV
 
Originally posted by: ClueLis
The first time I ran it, I found something like 8 programs. I haven't gotten anything since I began using Mozilla/Firefox about a year and a half ago.
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Try the latest beta "version 1.3 beta 6"of Spybot, which DOES detect Mozilla/Firefox spyware cookies.


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Originally posted by: vailr
Originally posted by: ClueLis
The first time I ran it, I found something like 8 programs. I haven't gotten anything since I began using Mozilla/Firefox about a year and a half ago.
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Try the latest beta "version 1.3 beta 6"of Spybot, which DOES detect Mozilla/Firefox spyware cookies.


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Yeah I just did a couple days ago. I ended up with 1 tracking cookie, but I don't really consider that spyware (compared to programs like Gator).
 
Not sure about Spybot, but for the few days I worked at Best Buy - they had a screen cap of a customer's computer - over 10,000 viruses found by Norton AV. I can't begin to fathom how you get that many viruses on a computer.
 
About 450 on a computer I was helping with.

On the same computer, it was so virus infected, it had more virus files then my windows folder had files. Around 13,000. I couldn't even run the programs on it, I had to take out the hard drive and scan it after I put it in my computer.
 
Oh god I have you all beat.

I went to a friend's house to fix his computer. He, his daughter, son, and wife all like to install freeware/shareware/trialware screensavers, gator, etc etc. It got to the point where his computer would crash on a 20 minute startup because it was trying to load so much stuff on boot. The first thing I did once I could do anything with the computer was to run spybot.

It had over 3100 things on it. It took spybot nearly an hour to detect and delete them all. I set it to run on the next boot and rebooted. It found another 80 or so programs to get.

So then I ran norton antivirus. He had about 20 viruses.

I then tried a disk defrag, and the windows defrag utility crapped out. It basically said: "dude, you're on your own" as the hard drive had something like 90% fragmentation. I had to download a 3rd party utility and let it run overnight to fix it. He said it was still running in the morning (~10 hrs after I had started it).

It was a P2 350 with 64 MB ram running win98 IIRC. He hadn't done any of the normal maintenance to it since he had bought it.
 
It's amazing how much you can get in just one day if you relax the security settings in MSIE. I mean ALLOW EVERYTHING! :Q

Cheers!
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Oh god I have you all beat.

I went to a friend's house to fix his computer. He, his daughter, son, and wife all like to install freeware/shareware/trialware screensavers, gator, etc etc. It got to the point where his computer would crash on a 20 minute startup because it was trying to load so much stuff on boot. The first thing I did once I could do anything with the computer was to run spybot.

It had over 3100 things on it. It took spybot nearly an hour to detect and delete them all. I set it to run on the next boot and rebooted. It found another 80 or so programs to get.

So then I ran norton antivirus. He had about 20 viruses.

I then tried a disk defrag, and the windows defrag utility crapped out. It basically said: "dude, you're on your own" as the hard drive had something like 90% fragmentation. I had to download a 3rd party utility and let it run overnight to fix it. He said it was still running in the morning (~10 hrs after I had started it).

It was a P2 350 with 64 MB ram running win98 IIRC. He hadn't done any of the normal maintenance to it since he had bought it.
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:Q

That post made me laugh.

Then after it all sunk in, I almost felt like crying.

Still laughing though.
 
Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
Originally posted by: silverpig
Oh god I have you all beat.

I went to a friend's house to fix his computer. He, his daughter, son, and wife all like to install freeware/shareware/trialware screensavers, gator, etc etc. It got to the point where his computer would crash on a 20 minute startup because it was trying to load so much stuff on boot. The first thing I did once I could do anything with the computer was to run spybot.

It had over 3100 things on it. It took spybot nearly an hour to detect and delete them all. I set it to run on the next boot and rebooted. It found another 80 or so programs to get.

So then I ran norton antivirus. He had about 20 viruses.

I then tried a disk defrag, and the windows defrag utility crapped out. It basically said: "dude, you're on your own" as the hard drive had something like 90% fragmentation. I had to download a 3rd party utility and let it run overnight to fix it. He said it was still running in the morning (~10 hrs after I had started it).

It was a P2 350 with 64 MB ram running win98 IIRC. He hadn't done any of the normal maintenance to it since he had bought it.
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:Q

That post made me laugh.

Then after it all sunk in, I almost felt like crying.

Still laughing though.
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And that's the short version. You should have seen how much stuff came up in the win98 version of the task manager. You'd sit at a blank desktop for about 10 minutes while all that crap tried loading. He knew about ctrl alt del and said if he killed <list of 7 or 8 things here> then it would get into windows about 1/3 of the time. After that EVERYTHING ran slow. I can't even remember half the stuff that was wrong with it because it was so traumatizing.
 
Just think about how many people who don't have knowledgeable friends to bail them out. I wonder how many new computers are purchased for that very reason... And, I wonder how many perfectly (albeit needing a format and reinstall of windows) good computers are thrown out.
 
One guy had like 5000 viruses that was found. Took like 8 hours to find it. Hehe and the first time it was going, it crashed about halfway and so had to restart it. Once that was done, spybot found around 3000 things.

-fk
 
Lately I haven't found any with spyBot..did they all give up..or did spyBot launch an attack and kill em all??...😕
 
I had a system in RI last week that had over 500 adware entries and 5 viruses including some adware virus that nothing could properly remove. I had to kill it manually. Damn thing had 2 processes and as soon as I killed one it would start another. Finally I ran adaware and it either went low key or was slowed down enough that I could finally kill both processes. Really wish these places would police their own employees.
 
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