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[Andavari]

It's unbelievable, I just cleaned a family friends PC that had over 5000+ adware/spyware infections, over 300+ trojan infections, and 100+ virus infections.

This should be a good lesson for people who don't have anti-spyware, anti-virus, and a good firewall installed.

[kobrakommander56]

its like a cambodian prostitute.

[rridgely]

You should have seen the porn machine that belonged to my friend. Adaware alone found 1500 infections.

I spent 3 hours cleaning it because no scanner in the world would have cleaned all that crap. I told him if it ever happens again I would format it.

[kobrakommander56]

hahahah idle hands spend time on the genitals.

[Eldmannen]

Wow, that is crazy!

When it is that bad, it is better you format the disk.

Make user account so your family members can login to restricted accounts.

Make them use Mozilla Firefox.

Tell them not to install anything without consult you first.

Tell them to never click "yes" on anything they come across on the Internet and to ask you if in doubt.

Tell them some handy tips, etc and stress the importance of common sense.

[rridgely]

Eldmannen, on Dec 18 2005, 06:18 PM, said:

Wow, that is crazy!

When it is that bad, it is better you format the disk.

Make user account so your family members can login to restricted accounts.

Make them use Mozilla Firefox.

Tell them not to insult anything without consult you first.

Tell them to never click "yes" on anything they come across on the Internet and to ask you if in doubt.

Tell them some handy tips, etc and stress the importance of common sense.

Wow I didnt know any of that.

[Andavari]

rridgely, on Dec 18 2005, 03:41 PM, said:

You should have seen the porn machine that belonged to my friend. Adaware alone found 1500 infections.

I spent 3 hours cleaning it because no scanner in the world would have cleaned all that crap. I told him if it ever happens again I would format it.

Well this system took some 18 plus hours of scanning, luckily there was only four references that HJT showed that were very easy to fix in a couple of minutes, however the scanning in safe mode on each user profile took ages. When I started off the system wouldn't even boot into normal mode.

And yes it was because of PoЯn, and p2p programs. Her son will be pissed that I deleted his links, installed blocked sites in the HOSTS file and into all web browsers, and since he isn't good with a computer it should take him some time to figure out how to bypass it.

Eldmannen, on Dec 18 2005, 05:18 PM, said:

Wow, that is crazy!

When it is that bad, it is better you format the disk.

Make user account so your family members can login to restricted accounts.

Make them use Mozilla Firefox.

Tell them not to insult anything without consult you first.

Tell them to never click "yes" on anything they come across on the Internet and to ask you if in doubt.

Tell them some handy tips, etc and stress the importance of common sense.

That's all fine and dandy, however when someone can't find their XP Restore CD there isn't much of an option but to crack the nuckles, sit back, and clean a system as much as possible. And my price of $0.00 (Merry Christmas) is far less than $50 per hour a repair shop would want which would cost as much as or more than an inexpensive over-the-counter PC.

Sure I was thinking the damn thing should have been formatted especially since there wasn't an Internet connection due to her bringing the PC to me -- I wasn't about to put my ISP on that system and have logon information stolen.

The amount of infections I found and had to manually remove tends to make me think that not every single piece was removed -- however nothing is resident anymore, nor is anything in the system .ini file's or boot files.

Since I installed allot of anti-malware related programs Ad-Aware SE Personal (many kudos), AVG Free (did very well and found trojans all other programs completely missed), Ewido (heavyweight champion of the world), MS AntiSpyware (murdered CWS then burnt the remains), Spybot SD (likes leftovers others won't eat), Trend Micro CWShredder (did a crappy horrible job), Trend Micro Sysclean Package (removed all viruses and only missed 7 trojans which AVG later removed), and ZoneAlarm Free (expletive) it should be much more difficult for it to get that bad again. And at least now I can tell her via the telephone what to run and in what order to remove anything.


Edit: Only fixed typo's.

Edited by Andavari, 19 December 2005 - 02:16 PM.

[rridgely]

Hahaha Ewido is the champ.
Thats usually what I use first now, even before an antivirus. Most of the time if I scan with ewido, adaware and a decent antivirus I wont need spybot or MSAS.(I still use them of course.)

That was a nice thing you did.

[hazelnut]

Andavari,
I loved your discription of the progs. you used and how they performed!!

[Mike Rochip]

Eldmannen, on Dec 18 2005, 05:18 PM, said:

Tell them not to insult anything without consult you first.

Did you mean "install?" If I had to consult someone whenever I wanted to insult something it would be very time consuming. LOL

[Eldmannen]

Maybe possible use "system restore" and back it to when it first was installed?

Mike Rochip, on Dec 22 2005, 10:13 AM, said:

Did you mean "install?" If I had to consult someone whenever I wanted to insult something it would be very time consuming. LOL

Yeah, I meant install I dont how come the post said insult maybe I wrote the post late.