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wolfen · Sep 28, 2004, 09:24 PM

So I worked another after-hours customer tonite. This 16 yr old kid had managed to really mess up his machine. Spoiled numnutz, too. Anyway, Adaware found 1250 objects. The previous record was like 500...kid tore it up. 10 viruses. Recovery CD's were lost.

That was a pleasant 2.5 hours.

Anyone else run adaware and come close to 1250?

d4nth3m4n · Sep 28, 2004, 09:33 PM

i think my record is like 160 something on the girlfriends dell.

thats just nuts. there is this kid in my programming class with a killer alienware who doesnt know jack about it.

i told him about firefox and he asked me "does it work with wireless?"

anyway, he is to this day convinced that firefox is bundled with spyware. i guess adaware came up with a bunch of returns.

numbnuts.

Wiskedjak · Sep 28, 2004, 09:35 PM

Originally posted by wolfen:
Anyone else run adaware and come close to 1250?

Most of them are likely cookies.

ManOfSteal · Sep 28, 2004, 09:56 PM

I've seen a few up in the 600's...

storer · Sep 28, 2004, 09:58 PM

get. the. kid. some. porn.

Kenneth · Sep 28, 2004, 10:08 PM

I don't like the current Ad-aware SE Personal.. so confusing.. like they separated into two section.. something like critical objects and negotiated objects.

Yea. I use Ad-aware on daily basis.. to clean up customers' infected PCs.\

p0rn is NOT the answer...

demograph68 · Sep 28, 2004, 10:13 PM

My girlfriend was mad at me for deleting a program called Weatherbug from her computer, which is adware. She thought the icon was "cute".

businezguy · Sep 28, 2004, 10:37 PM

The record for a customer I was doing tech support for=1,600. Maybe 50 of those were cookies. They were disappointed when Adaware removed Gator. I told them the "free" programs they liked, were generally "free" for a reason.

storer · Sep 28, 2004, 10:49 PM

Originally posted by Kenneth:
p0rn is NOT the answer...

the kid must think so cos hes been looking at a lot of it.

Kenneth · Sep 28, 2004, 10:50 PM

Originally posted by demograph68:
My girlfriend was mad at me for deleting a program called Weatherbug from her computer, which is adware. She thought the icon was "cute".

finally agree with ya.. those chicks at the office love the weatherbug and can't live w.o... well.. I believed that it no longer considered as a spyware, right?

RedStar · Sep 28, 2004, 10:59 PM

no joke... over 12,000 objects a few times

For a while our record was 1985, but this semester has been insane with students bringing down their computers with "excessive popups". Our new procedure for this is:

-stinger (standalone trojan / virus scan)
-adaware, hijackthis, and cwshredder
-clean out the registry
-look through add / remove programs for sketchy things
-update or install antivirus software

It's a long and time consuming process, but solves 80% of problems. Yesterday I spent three hours on a computer that would instantly reboot when plugged into a network jack. No rpc warning...nothing. There was actually a service running under the guise of symantec that would reboot when it detected a net connection.

Silly co-workers still make fun of my mac.

TimmyDee51 · Sep 28, 2004, 11:05 PM

Even that's nothing. Last year, during "virus season" at the college I worked at, I cleaned a computer that had over 17,000 viruses. No joke. I think I still have the screenshot somewhere. That kid had more fake pr0n on his computer than you could believe.

Wiskedjak · Sep 28, 2004, 11:32 PM

What's "fake" porn?

Wiskedjak · Sep 28, 2004, 11:38 PM

dp

TimmyDee51 · Sep 29, 2004, 12:10 AM

Yeah, I thought that looked funny after I posted it. They were basically files like "xxx-britney-xxx.jpg" that were really just virus files and not images or movies or whatever else he was downloading.

CD Hanks · Sep 29, 2004, 01:27 AM

Originally posted by demograph68:
My girlfriend was mad at me for deleting a program called Weatherbug from her computer, which is adware. She thought the icon was "cute".

Leave her.

wolfen · Sep 29, 2004, 07:34 AM

Originally posted by RedStar:

-stinger (standalone trojan / virus scan)
-adaware, hijackthis, and cwshredder
-clean out the registry
-look through add / remove programs for sketchy things
-update or install antivirus software

I have a similar process. Typically I
-hit Task Manager and browse the processes to get a feel for what's on there
-go into safe mode and remove any antivirus software that's installed ('cuz it obviously ain't workin').
-Add/Remove programs and regedit all the crap in startup.
-Install and run PCCillin with the latest pattern file
-run adaware and Spybot
-Get out of Safe mode and scour the most commonly hit directories for hidden/undetected crap

Last night I had a run in with a really cool iisjpeg.exe file that had to be removed via safe mode command prompt.

MilkmanDan · Sep 29, 2004, 07:39 AM

Does Windows count as one?

drive-thru · Sep 29, 2004, 07:48 AM

Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Does Windows count as one?

I'd say at least 2.

MilkmanDan · Sep 29, 2004, 08:15 AM

Originally posted by drive-thru:
I'd say at least 2.

One for Windows, one for IE. I would say.

turtle777 · Sep 29, 2004, 09:23 AM

Originally posted by demograph68:
My girlfriend was mad at me for deleting a program called Weatherbug from her computer, which is adware. She thought the icon was "cute".

SHE better be cute...

-t

skalie · Sep 29, 2004, 10:51 AM

Originally posted by businezguy:
I told them the "free" programs they liked, were generally "free" for a reason.

As is adaware, or not.

Anyhowz, this friend of mine who hadn't been able to get his ADSL to work gave me a ring the other day.

"help"

I had previously helped his windows 98 machine connect to the internet by running ipconfig and clear the IP's.

Anyway, he'd had some friends try and sort the thing out, so I turn up, run adaware and spybot which I'd installed at the previous visit, reboot, and there he was, back on line.

Boy, did I feel L33T.

Amusing moment was when I showed him the sex tracker cookie's, cue father and 12 year old son looking sideways at each other.

turtle777 · Sep 29, 2004, 11:13 AM

Originally posted by skalie:
Amusing moment was when I showed him the sex tracker cookie's, cue father and 12 year old son looking sideways at each other.

-t

storer · Sep 29, 2004, 04:56 PM

Originally posted by skalie:
Amusing moment was when I showed him the sex tracker cookie's, cue father and 12 year old son looking sideways at each other.

that's exactly what i was talking about before.