I win!!!!!!
 

So I'm scanning a user's PC today and she has 1173 infected files on her PC.

1173!!!!!! WTF?????

Turns out she got some e-mails with attachments she couldn't open and just kept trying!!

Part of it was our fault because the latest and greatest virus scan wasn't installed. It's a long story, trust me. There's a lot of

Me - "The latest vesion is in the newest build."
Tech - "I thought I was using the latest build."

Needless to say, all of that got straightened out and the user has the latest software, but 1173 infected files. Again...WTF????

So, let's here your horror stories. I'm sure someone has come across some pretty infected PCs

Wow.. a award can goto that user for being the biggest security risk to her company.

Well it doesn't really compare, but I just got called in to look at a computer. It was running slow and had so many errors you couldn't even open a window. Turns out they had over 475 instances of spyware.

The record in my shop is 891 infected files and on another record, 1104 items from ad-aware. The virus system ran fine after the cleaning. The ad-aware...well that needed a rebuild in order to fully function.

too many to list, and too many workstations to cover....

30+ floors, 150 computers per floor...

GoT, sounds like that user needs a reinstall.

We have gotten to the point in the tech support area of my school that when a user has more than a couple viruses, or more than a few hundred ad-aware infected files, we just nuke the machine.

I never had a problem with viruses, I mean, cleaning them that is. It's the f'ing spyware that chews up the registry that pisses me off. I've gotten to the point where if I have to work on a machine for more then an hour, I just wipe it.

Hell yeah, it's amazing what a otherwise innocent teenage chatter can do to a machine in a matter of minutes.

Ghost baby ghost :)

Oh, that's what happened!!

Ghost is a tech's best friend.

try over 5000 pieces of spyware/dialers/etc.

http://tfproject.org/tfp/showthread....threadid=39423

Well I can't remember all the facts, but I did find over 20000 infected files on my CEO's laptop once. It was a .vbs virus that kept replicating itself.

Happened back in 2000 or 2001, wish I could remember what it was called.

Damn!! I'm not sure weather to applaud, or cry at that

:)

*applauds*

I don't count them anymore, I just Ghost them... much eaiser.

Haha. I am completely suprised on how many infected computers there are on the net. The only time I've been infected is when someone else ran a visual basic script that infected all of my image files. They couldn't be repaired so I had to reformat.

I don't ever remember a computer getting infected at work though. We do have a pretty tight network so I'm not to suprised. (Part of that is due to us having ISDN connection. So we are afraid to even touch the net because it goes so slow.)

By nuke, do you mean reformat and reinstall the OS or throw away the machine? If you do the latter, you should take them and reformat, and then sell them or something.

Our school's techies think ghosting is the solution to everything. Something wrong, "ghost it."

Kind of off topic but it sounds like Dells solutions to everything. If it doesn't work reformat...

Now onto the topic. That is an insane amount of spyware Holo. I just saw the highest I've seen all my life before this thread and it was 163. I was thinking that was a lot but damn was I wrong.

A couple of months ago...

I got a call from a client, their computer was opening porn windows and they couldn't get the windows to close. I went over and found 56 different windows open.

So I ended the IE process(it is xp) and ran adaware I found about 3000 entries. Then I installed (they didn't have any anti-virus!?!) and ran a Anti-Virus and found 130,000 infected files. After getting all that cleaned up, I ran adaware again and found another 2000 spyware files.

That was a long day.

Also sounds like he/she needs a popup stopper, and ad-watch turned on...

Worst Iv'e seen is 978, and that was a known porn surfer, after a month and a half

I would bet it was Nimda. I HATED that fucking virus. It was the only virus that every really fucked with me. I still have backup CDs with a copy of that damn thing that I didn't see at backup time. Of course without Outlook it was useless so Outlook hasn't been on this machine since.

The virus the user had in my case was the netsky.b@mm. It apparently tries to place itself in any folder with the word share or sharing in it. That wasy it can be sent out via any P2P programs.

Since we don't allow any of those here, it placed itself in any folder named shared on the hard drive. Since a lot of software has shared components, like office, that's where the 1173 files came from. It was mainly the same 20 or so files in multiple folders.

The fact that this was a homicide detective made the situation even worse (or funnier from my standpoint). She should have known better than to try and open an e-mail attachment from someone she didn't know.

I tell ya, the cops are the worst problem we have in IT. Makes ya wonder how crimes ever get solved.

If it takes more time to fix it than it would to Ghost it, then ghosting is teh right answer. When I worked in IT for my high school, everything people saved was on network drives, so theoretically, every computer should be teh same, and ghosting will be faster and more efficient.

Some of you nerds will apppreciate this:

Me: "Dave, I need the ghost disk"
Dave: "Why?"
Me: "Someone installed Real Player. Why won't they just disable installs?"
Dave: "The people in charge aren't the brightest of the bunch. Here's the disk"

Oh, almost forgot, when I got Klez'ed, I couldn't boot to Windows to run the FixKlez utility, so I had to manually go through every directory (11,000) and remove two virus files from each one.

Amen if it's sooo messed up it's just easier and cheaper to reghost..