Talk about infected

[technical.angel]

I got another side job yesterday.

After running MalwareBytes, 15k out of 20k files were infected.

I'll be going through those results with a fine-tooth comb.

[AriRashkae]

:wtf: The worst I've ever had on my machine was a few decompression bombs, which ended up being the kids' DVDs that I'd ripped so they could trash the copies instead of the masters. :lol:

[draggar]

Just FFR it.

[technical.angel]

FFR? That's a new one to me. Does that mean reformat? Cause it's an option.

[RichS]

FFR? That's a new one to me. Does that mean reformat? Cause it's an option.

Yes - it stands for Fdisk, Format, Reinstall. :)

[tropicsgoddess]

I got another side job yesterday.

After running MalwareBytes, 15k out of 20k files were infected.

I'll be going through those results with a fine-tooth comb.

Holy shit!! :eek: I think SO had you beat on this one. He once had a customer with over 68k of viruses on their computer and it was no surprise where the source of those viruses came from....Pr0n.

[Victoria J]

I don't know about % of files infected but you reminded me of the grandest scale of computer virus infrection I've seen.

I worked somewhere where one of the computers got a virus which kept corrupted files. So one of my impressively smart coworkers tries to access a file on a diskette one day (it was a while ago ;)) and found her document would not open.

So she tried the disk in another computer. And another...

Until she'd tried every simgle computer in the office. And infected every one.

:cry:

Victoria J

[sld72382]

The worst for me was when I removed close to 20 uninstallable adwares in add/remove and when I ran SUPERAntiSpyware (at the time Malwarebytes was still in beta stage) it found close to 5,000 entries.

One of my co-workers ran Ewido one time (back when it was good) and found close to 20,000 items. Another time a CW ran AVG (back when it was actually good) and it found close to 1,600 viruses.

[draggar]

Are you all working on my wife's laptop? :roll::roll::roll:

[Dreamstalker]

I worked somewhere where one of the computers got a virus which kept corrupted files. So one of my impressively smart coworkers tries to access a file on a diskette one day (it was a while ago ;)) and found her document would not open.

So she tried the disk in another computer. And another...

Until she'd tried every simgle computer in the office. And infected every one.

Something similar happened on campus one week (although it was a flash drive). The culprit's antivirus (way out of date) didn't twig on it, and antivirus on all the campus computers didn't scan removable media by default, so also didn't catch it. Given that almost everything was networked with very little protection internally, it didn't take long for it to infect not only all the school machines, but also every student computer that didn't have updated security.

Luck would have it this hit just before the creation of a new master image for all the campus computers (and wasn't actually known about until after it was done), so when everything had to be reloaded the virus was too :doh:

[EricKei]

Dayyyyum...The worst I've ever seen was an uncle's comp about 7 years ago...Couldn't even boot to the Desktop due to how many spyware/virus infections he had on his comp (which runs fine when only he uses it, but suddenly starts acting funny whenever his kids come over to visit...ya know, the kids who have promised never to mess with his computer...). I had to use a boot CD just to get in and scan from a commandline. 8 thousand infections found on the initial, cursory pass. Took several hours just to get it clean enough to boot into windows at all.

[technical.angel]

I got another one in that promises to be fun.

It's got Vundo and, I believe, fake AV. But, the vundo, or something, is blocking ANY anti-malware to be run. It even stops the AV scan.

So I'm going to have to hook up the HD as a secondary drive and run it that way. I just finished with one that was doing the same thing.

Talk about nightmare.

[bsaana]

Are you all working on my wife's laptop? :roll::roll::roll:

I managed to teach my wife not to go for any of the adware/virus infested crap. All it took was making her recover her own machine - and even then it wasn't done quite right... At least it was an easy job to fix the botched recovery.

[volatile]

A lot of these cases where there are tens of thousands of infections are because of System Restore.