Would you like some computer with your spyware?

[DaveSauce]

http://img13.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img13&image=IM001037.JPG
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I just ran adaware on a computer brought to me. This is 100% real. no digital manipulation of the image whatsoever.

Tell me...why must people torture their computers so? This computer was brought to me because the spyware had infested it so much that you CANT DO ANYTHING.

I should also mention that this computer belongs to the doughter of the person who's computer I worked on previously...he had so much spyware that he couldn't load iexplore without it crashing half the time....only 180 objects and 2 viruses.

god that reminds me, I still haven't run AVG on this computer yet....ugh...

btw, do I have a new world record on my hands???:confused::confused::confused:

I should also add that this is after I went into msconfig and disabled a bunch of crap....grrr

for those of you who have read this far and haven't seen the picture, this computer has

985

pieces of spyware on it, according to ad-aware.

[qualhiveldorf]

JEEBUS!!! I have to go to my bathroom to puke...............


...........I'm back, how could you be that ignorant to the evils of the Internet?

Edit: Ugghhh I just ran it (I thought I would be safe with various anti-viruses and such) I :cry: had :cry: 777 :cry:

btw: whats a data miner (they consisted of about 95% of them)?

[David]

I got 3668 viruses after I didnt update my virus scanner once...

All Netsky

[Sony]

Thats nothing

http://www.livejournal.com/community/techsupport/253851.html#cutid1

Don't know who this guy is but i'm suprised his computer was fast enough to run AD-Aware

[tom10167]

A data miner is a kind of cookie that tracks what you're doing, so to speak. 40,000. Some things should be illegal. *sigh*

[Krome]

AdWare? Why don't y'all use SpyBot, The most I've seen is like 352 pieces of spyware on a machine.

[zip22]

i use both ad aware and spybot, they trend to catch things the other one missed, but both are good

[Cerberus2k7]

Originally posted by zip22
i use both ad aware and spybot, they trend to catch things the other one missed, but both are good

Agreed, spybot will usually pick up 8-12 things that Adaware missed on my rig.

[wannaoc]

I use Spy Bot at least weekly. Never get over 20 things at one scan. Thats just silly how many there were on some of your PCs. :D

[Mr.Radar]

Originally posted by wannaoc
I use Spy Bot at least weekly. Never get over 20 things at one scan. Thats just silly how many there were on some of your PCs. :D

20??? I bet you're using IE and I'll also bet that the number will go down to ~2 or less per week if you switch to Mozilla, Firefox, or Opera.

[Sophisticated]

Originally posted by DaveSauce
http://img13.imageshack.us/my.php?loc=img13&image=IM001037.JPG
(linked for size....1600x1200, 600kb)

I just ran adaware on a computer brought to me. This is 100% real. no digital manipulation of the image whatsoever.

Tell me...why must people torture their computers so? This computer was brought to me because the spyware had infested it so much that you CANT DO ANYTHING.

I should also mention that this computer belongs to the doughter of the person who's computer I worked on previously...he had so much spyware that he couldn't load iexplore without it crashing half the time....only 180 objects and 2 viruses.

god that reminds me, I still haven't run AVG on this computer yet....ugh...

btw, do I have a new world record on my hands???:confused::confused::confused:

I should also add that this is after I went into msconfig and disabled a bunch of crap....grrr

for those of you who have read this far and haven't seen the picture, this computer has

985

pieces of spyware on it, according to ad-aware.

how does it run now....BTW get PerfectDisk V6 and defrag id love to see the fragments..... go bye bye

[stan03]

hahaha brings O&O into the fray :p

yea i got my friend to run adaware on his pc once... he had well over 1000 items :eek:

nothing near 40000 tho:p

[Sophisticated]

i see i have a competition here...you want war stan03 then you get war lol j/p...

[iD10t]

20??? I bet you're using IE and I'll also bet that the number will go down to ~2 or less per week if you switch to Mozilla, Firefox, or Opera.


very true. have the browser prompt on cookies and only accept cookies from trusted sites.
haven't had a piece of spyware on my main for quite a while now.

[stan03]

Originally posted by Sophisticated
i see i have a competition here...you want war stan03 then you get war lol j/p...

LOL... go fold:p

[dead_man311]

ive never had that many spyware before, most ive had was like 150. for virisus i had just over 10,000 once. dont know what it was the computer started acting up. so i scanned it , i went upstairs came back down and there was over 10,000 found. so i formated it and re did windows

[stan03]

iv never had problems with viri... :p

[DaveSauce]

Originally posted by Mr.Radar


20??? I bet you're using IE and I'll also bet that the number will go down to ~2 or less per week if you switch to Mozilla, Firefox, or Opera.

hmmmm I use IE and I get 0 results when I run ad-aware, and I run it about once a month. Must be the way you use it....:D

and as for defrag, good idea....this computer also had like 50 viruses on it....I'm afraid to see what condition the HD is in.

Things are running much smoother now....don't have 5 million things loading up right away, don't have 50 different hijackers competing for IE. It's still slow, cuz it's a P2-266.....but it's working a bit better than it was.

btw, any other optimizations you can think of? Updating drivers is out of the question...I tried to update the SB drivers, but they won't recognize the fact that there's a sound card in there, lol. Everything else has no need for driver updates. I already did windows update on it....nothing else I can think of, really.

[qualhiveldorf]

I use opera and I still had a lot but I do use kazaa, BUT not anymore, Ive seen the light and switched to Overnet

[Aslan]

I use IE as well without getting any spyware. Spyware Blaster = Win.

I'm sure my Uncle's computer has at least that much spyware. The last time I went on it took 5 mins just to load up the browser. I really should clean it the next time I go to his house.

[stan03]

yea Sypware Blaster is awsome it cut down my average items from scans frome like 15 to about 1-2

[dead_man311]

Originally posted by stan03
iv never had problems with viri... :p

that one time was thw worse i had. now ill get the usual one here and there sometime go a few months with out seeing a single on here at the house and we got 6 computers here

[Dermen]

Spywareblaster and spywareguard rock. I run both and only had 1 thing of spyware since. But spywareblaster didn't have the newest update at that time.

[Sophisticated]

We'll see how this spyblaster works i just installed it so we will see how much spyware i get now.

[Disputant]

Had a similar log show up on one of the computers at work. Cleaned it up and put a boot up PW on it. Low and behold a computer in another office got hosed the following week after I warned everyone on my team to stay off the pron sites at work. When will people learn.

The sad thing is that you can get all that trash going to legit sites as well and installing legit driver updates. Not to mention Windows Media Player.

[Captain Newbie]

I've been lucky and managed to avoid viral problems. Spyware, on the other hand, accumulates rapidly.

Moral of the story is to use SpyBot/Adaware et. al. at least once a week ;)

And yes, these things should be illegal.