180 Viruses!
Monday, September 25, 2006 by Dr Guy | Discussion: Personal Computing
That is no typo! 180 viruses! I am working on my cousin's daughter's computer and that is how many she had! It is by far and away the record for me. I have never had anyone even begin to approach that number of viruses on a single computer! And it is still not right!
In addition, it had over 1200 items of spy/ad Ware on it (I have heard worst stories on that as I am on a Resnet list). And why am I working on it? She complained she was getting "out of memory errors". No duh! I am surprised it even booted (barely. It took about 45 minutes to see the desktop, and longer to get into any application).
I am in the process of finishing the installation, but I am going to call my cousin and ask for the restore CD. I will recover files they have, but I would not feel right giving this back to him as Windows is severly cripled.
180 viruses! Amazing!
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Reply #23 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:44 PM
i guess there is no security in the world that can block stupid surfing habits...
P.S. 180? *scoff* Beat 562.
Reply #24 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:55 PM
| P.S. 180? *scoff* Beat 562. |
Can I respectfully decline the challenge? 
Reply #26 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:01 PM
Off-topic, but one more horror story about her old job. I guess they had a hard drive failure on one of their machines once -- and of course they didn't back anything up -- so the official policy was that all their documents had to be saved to floppies instead of the hard drive. To this day, Brenda doesn't trust hard drives, but at least I've got her using a flash drive now...
Reply #27 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:22 PM
| Oh my gosh that is insane! 180 viruses... And the computer even works.. Amazing! |
Works is a relative term with this computer.
Reply #28 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:23 PM
| Oh, and 'bloody nora' is an English colloquialism which is representative of one's shock/horror/surprise to something.....and when it's "BLOODY NORA!!!!" you can surmise it was due to a personal experience. |
AH! English lessons! Thank you.
Reply #29 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:24 PM
| it took maybe a half hour to boot up and then it took another half hour to start up his antivirus he never ran it much but it still worked |
It is amazing sometimes when Windows does run!
Reply #30 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:26 PM
| The funny part was I had been to this site a 100 times before with incident. |
Some of these hackers are known to hijack web sites to spread their mischief.
Reply #31 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:28 PM
| Any suggestions on the best way for me to connect to her PC from mine, anything free is prefered? |
If they have XP, you can use Remote Desktop. If they have another version, get VNC (free). They will have to open up their router to allow you access, but with the GUIs these things have, it is not a big deal.
Reply #32 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:28 PM
| Can you say...."Format C:"?.... |
I am going to as soon as I recover anything they have on it. It is too crippled to leave as is.
Reply #33 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:30 PM
| so the official policy was that all their documents had to be saved to floppies instead of the hard drive. |
Save to the HD, and copy to floppy! That is what I told people in the old days. I dont trust floppies!
Reply #35 Wednesday, September 27, 2006 5:58 AM
| AH! English lessons! Thank you |
Or as our Aussie mates say "flamin Nora". I guess thats a Nora on fire.
| The sad part is that most times you do a clean up like this for someone, it's back in the same shape in a few months. |
Always a good idea to ghost a fresh install then you can roll it back in under an hour.
| That is no typo! 180 viruses! |
I hope you washed your hands and burnt your clothes before going home.
Reply #36 Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:27 AM
| I hope you washed your hands and burnt your clothes before going home. |
The EPA declared the house a toxic waste dump.
Reply #37 Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:41 AM
I hope you washed your hands and burnt your clothes before going home. |
Actually, Dr Guy was detained and has been posting to this thread from the quarantine area of the CDC (Center for Disease Control). Apparently Homeland Security and the FBI heard about it and weren't risking him being released into the wild.
Hope they get you deloused real soon, matey....we be needin' ya back on deck ASAP.
Reply #38 Friday, September 29, 2006 5:18 AM
There is bound to be a key logger on the within that 180.
Reply #39 Friday, September 29, 2006 7:16 AM
| Apparently Homeland Security and the FBI heard about it and weren't risking him being released into the wild. |
They be a might testy about them bugs.
Reply #40 Friday, September 29, 2006 7:18 AM
| I wonder how many people have their CC numbers and private details now? There is bound to be a key logger on the within that 180. |
Fortunately it was the daughter's computer, so hopefully they got none of that. I think I saw a couple of keyloggers (I did not read all 180). I know there was at least one.
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Reply #21 Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:25 AM