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protokatie:
Someone who I worked with like 9 years ago showed up to my work tonight with his gf's laptop which was infected. (I also had to fix this same computer 6 months ago because he didn't install a simple wifi driver properly.). It turned out that he had a stupid "I am a virus checker" trojan on his computer. Every few minutes it would pop up a window that showed the exact same thing (a list of random viruses with a few with an infected icon next to them). Of course this screen was also asking for him to register the program to flush it out. Prolly didn't help that this trojan had a name similar to AVG and used the same icon...
Just gotta love how this "virus scanner" had comments next to the virus list describing the supposed threats as "Slow down computer virus" and similar :D

Fixt it by end-tasking the offending task, DLing a real virus program, and doing a thorough scan, which removed the fake virus scanner and 5 other infected files (which may have been copies of this program).

As per the HD, I have 2 1TB WD drives and they have been flawless for almost a yeah. Maybe WD fixed their problems... I wonder if the people who have HD probs are just the ones who get the 10 to 20% of the drives that were flawed but made it through QC anyways (typical with most complex electronics).

Xiaou2:
That wont stop him.

 Give him a list of  "Good"  bad sites   ;)


Btw - Im happy about the level of understanding of the general pc user. 
It gives me a paycheck and occasional side job cash.

TOK:

--- Quote from: saint on August 13, 2009, 09:18:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: TOK on August 13, 2009, 08:24:15 pm ---I'm working on a friends computer as I type this. Its going through a spyware/malware scan.
This is the most screwed up computer I've ever seen that is actually still running. The crap on here is so bad that it won't let you download or run things to repair it.

He couldn't find any of his original software, or I would have just blown it out and started over. I've probably spent 3 hours dicking around with this thing over the course of the last few nights. The worst thing is that I know when I give it back clean, it'll be all screwed up again in two months.


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Image it before you give it back

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I'd love to do that with a clean install. I'm afraid doing it this way that there is something that I'm going to miss and I don't want to image it with a problem.
Its 75% better than it was already, but still won't let me open stuff like Spybot.

He's sharing this PC with his young teen daughter and in addition to her iTunes, it has every Smiley toolbar, shady web game service, coupon generator and malware generator disguised as malware remover ever created on it.

 :banghead:

ChadTower:
I used to do a lot of side repairs for extra income... did help desk support in college... did PC support in the corporate world... I've seen enough truly stupid, and I mean make your head asplode stupid, things that my brain probably jettisoned most of the memories out of self preservation.

Hell just the list of random objects I found inside PC cases is enough to make you want to cry.  And more than a few times I ran across content that raised real problems, most times just about fidelity, but a couple times it was stuff that made me call the police.

hypernova:

--- Quote from: TOK on August 14, 2009, 05:35:52 am ---He's sharing this PC with his young teen daughter and in addition to her iTunes, it has every Smiley toolbar, shady web game service, coupon generator and malware generator disguised as malware remover ever created on it.
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With all these toolbars out there, I'm wouldn't be surprised if some people have lost over half their screen space when internet surfing.  People just leave boxes checked when doing things, and wham, they've downloaded a toolbar.  If you do it enough times, your internet browser is all toolbars, and no browser.

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