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I've spent way to much time on a sales guys lap-top. His e-mail didn't work, his pc was slow, he want's a better spell check. Fixed the e-mail, told him get a dictionary and went out to microtrend.com because his default web site was fortune city 500. Stopped the scan after 136 infected files, and ran f-prot. I don't know about you, but 2918 infected files is got to be a record for here. So the question is, what's the highest number of infected files anybody has seen out there?

Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
gjohn76351@msn.com

"The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million."
Arthur Koestler (1905-83); Hungarian-born British author.

 
Wow, I had four or five hundred on a client machine back when I was a consultant, it was one of those viruses that gutted every jpg, doc, and who knows what else it could find. It merely nuked the files, though, they weren't contagious.

Was the laptop running any kind of antivirus?
-Steve


I can see this coming to the Ethics forum - "Is it ethical to give a user only Guest privileges on their own laptop?" :)
 
He had an old version of norton running, but he hadn't run it in 1600 days. I loaded a new version of Norton, did a live update, and found one more file. The first scan was using F-Prot with a signature of last november. All I could get my hands on at the time until I could get out and buy Norton. After updating Norton, ran it and found one more! Also installed ad-alarm. It's free software that if you download something, some companies try and put hidden files on your pc, and report back to them what you do and where you go. I installed it on mine and found 23 companies tracking me. Big brother IS here. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
gjohn76351@msn.com

"The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million."
Arthur Koestler (1905-83); Hungarian-born British author.

 
I have scanned for nimda, cleaned all the files (thousands), and it was reinfected by the user opening the mail again, so 20 min later we scanned and found thousands more. so if it is nimda that is not very many as it can make about 12,000 files a hour... FatesWebb

if you do what I suggested it is not my fault...
 
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