Potato2k4 Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 So I was talking to my friend, and he was complaining about computer troubles. I gave him the link to Spybot S&D and a few other things, and I ask him how it went. Heres what he said:"Hey how'd Spybot work for you?""Good it fixed 108 problems"" Whoah."I never knew... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blim Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 I remember when we used Adaware and Spybot on the Possessed Gateway and they came up with 600-and-something cooties! 108, phsaw, that's nottin'Hoping your buddy's idiot box is working much nicer now--and hook him up with Spywareblaster to keep the cooties from infecting the idiot box in the first place!Liz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Potato2k4 Posted January 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 WOW! 608!?!??!!? How did that thing even run at all? hahahaha amazing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 spybot found four on mineand i thought you silly old -----where have you been surfingso four is a hellova lot different to 608however we cant all be perfectas when i first started ime not going to tell you many yukys i had those days spybot was like a bolting horseit got away on some of usat one stage i wouldnt have it on my sys once i learned to set my cookies right but now it is essential to our syswith all this stuff that is floating aroundmarty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 I can run AdAware and all it finds is a couple of MRUs. SpyBot finds nothing afterwards. Panda stops the crap before it loads. It's fun visiting websites with spyware and watching Panda go crazy warning me it blocked bad cookies, attempted driveby downloads and other evil s**t. Panda's heuristic feature has proven itself many times. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 That's a lot of ... stuff. Just ran Ad-Aware on a friend's computer I hadn't had my hands on before, cleaned her right up. Probably doubled her speed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
baker7 Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 I worked on my bros computer once - ran adaware and it found 6,000+ things wrong with it - I had to reinstall the whole thing - what a mess hehehehebrian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Potato2k4 Posted January 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 I worked on my bros computer once - ran adaware and it found 6,000+ things wrong with it - I had to reinstall the whole thing - what a mess hehehehebrianThat almost made me fall out of my chair Quote Link to post Share on other sites
macmarauder Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 yeah i've been through the same thing. the PC i had before this 1 was bought at an auction and it had copies of some really nice expensive software on it that i wanted but they hadn't updated it in forever and it was loaded to the top with viruses, spyware, you name it. i found a worm on it that hadn't been active in over 3 years. it took me weeks to get it all cleaned out. every time i turned around something else would pop up that non of the scanners didn't find and i especially hated finding lots of corrupted files. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 I have ran across a machine with about 1500 problems as reported by adaware. Surprisingly it cleaned up well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Gotta remember.. 90% of those 'problems' are just going to be benign cookiesUsually... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mikex Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 I run cleanup or ccleaner before scanning. I don't get those impressive numbers, but then I don't have to wait for the scanner to scan all those extra files.M Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steamhead Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 yea when a scan comes up with hundreds and hundreds of "infections" most of the time it is just cookies.but there's always exceptions somewhere Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sultan_emerr Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 So I was talking to my friend, and he was complaining about computer troubles. I gave him the link to Spybot S&D and a few other things, and I ask him how it went. Heres what he said:"Hey how'd Spybot work for you?""Good it fixed 108 problems"" Whoah."I never knew...Yes, I've seen some huge numbers posted by people who had never used those programs before. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 last year i cleaned a friends compt the kids were playing internet games it had 46 worms and trojons 86 tracking cookiesand so much spy ware we had to reinstall windowshe was using window 2.000 and didnt have the 2.000 disk there wasent any spy ware software nor virus scanners they hadent heard of these thingsi came home and he chased me up a coupla days later and said ive bought a win.2.000 disk second handwhen i asked him if it had a product number or registration number he said well that didnt come with it well i have an old xp disk here which i dont use any moreand it is an illegal copy so i put it on but ididnt tell hime it was a pirate why should i they didnt have any regard for their compt and i believe it should be treated like children other wise it wont work properlyso far they havent come back to me i put on all the safety featuresand all the updates but it being illegal i was forever looking over my should so to speak and hope to god i dont hear from them again i did it for the kids sakemarty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 well I just started fixing a computer for someone. It would start but when you logged into an account after a few seconds the icons and the taskbar disappeared. It wouldn't respond to anything other than the power button. I did a repair install of windows upgrading it from SP1 to SP2 and still the same prob. I decided to put the hard drive in my Compaq as a slave and run AVG on it. Get this.2 virusesand308 Trojan horses.No frickin wonder the dern thing wouldn't run straight. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Potato2k4 Posted February 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 how'd that clean up? Not well I would imagine. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 I was able to return the computer to a usable state but it's still pretty messed up. I'm gonna have to take the computer back to this person and tell them to back up what they need and give it back to me to do a full format and reinstall. I've never had to deal with such a messed up XP machine before. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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