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alexthegreat

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What is the biggest amount of infections in a computer you fixed?
« on: March 21, 2008, 10:23:40 PM »
Using Avast! of course :)

The biggest amount I fixed was 60,000 I think there is even still more and doing a boot scan took 4 hours just clicking the button to move to vault ughh...
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Re: What is the biggest amount of infections in a computer you fixed?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2008, 10:51:30 PM »
When an infection is that great, the only smart thing to do is to
format the hard drive and start again from scratch.
There isn't an anti-virus program made that will restore your computer to
a usable state with that many infections. IMHO
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Re: What is the biggest amount of infections in a computer you fixed?
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2008, 11:50:14 PM »
The person's who I fixed never had a back-up or windows install disk...

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Re: What is the biggest amount of infections in a computer you fixed?
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2008, 12:27:13 AM »
Hi alexthegreat,

How was it possible to infect a computer that badly, the owner of this machine must have been a complete n00b,

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Re: What is the biggest amount of infections in a computer you fixed?
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2008, 05:06:26 AM »
Let's say the owner of that machine was being a rebel online.  Suprisingly they had avast! (3 years out of date   :o ) and spybot... imagine how much he would have without security?!

Then their friends when they saw I fixed it, they said I knew NOTHING about computers just because I dislike macs, and I was able to clean it.

They didn't even patch their system.
« Last Edit: March 22, 2008, 05:10:26 AM by alexthegreat »
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Re: What is the biggest amount of infections in a computer you fixed?
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2008, 06:34:33 PM »
Not bad but this is a first scan with Malwarebytes

Memory Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 6
Registry Values Infected: 1
Registry Data Items Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 27
Files Infected: 597

Infections found so far (and still cleaning)
Beagle
Haxdoor
Rustock
Gabot
Smitfraud
Vundo
Plus several assorted Mailing worms and Password stealers

AV is Yahoo AV (VET)
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