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by **Dave Henri** » Fri, 21 May 2004 21:40:07

Cleaned out this lady's virus ridden system last night. A fairly new HP
computer with an AMD XP 2800+ cpu. It had a small flat LCD screen and a
Geforce 2 MX onboard video. It should have been a fairly speedy system.
But it took hours to update. The Hard Drive was incredibly slow. I
couldn't beleive, with the fast cpu included, how pokey that *** was.
They had 3 different viruses, 80+ infected files and about 150 spyware
programs. You shoulda seen the husband's face go slack when I told him
that somebody knew every site he had been too. :)
So I spent hours installing a firewall, and spyware programs and then
doing the windows updates.
Charged my usual fee...a 12 pak of diet coke.

Here I sit with 7200rpm ATA drives, a non pro 9800 vid card and the same
2800+ cpu and I keep thinking how outdated my rig is getting. :)
It's good to get out amoungst the commoners now and then.
dave henrie

by **Damien Evan** » Fri, 21 May 2004 22:06:51

It's been a while since I've been asked to take look at an 'off-the-shelf'
PC (HP, Dell etc) that isn't riddled with viruses, spyware & adware. I
guess the authors of that stuff are achieving their goals - they certainly
seem to be reaching their target audience.

by **Steve Blankenshi** » Fri, 21 May 2004 22:40:24

<snip>You shoulda seen the husband's face go slack when I told him
that somebody knew every site he had been too. :)<snip>

Yup... ;-) Same reaction I get when I point people to AV, Spybot and
Adaware and they find hordes of nasties on their systems. The ones that DL
lots of music via P2P are the worst-hit, it seems. Haven't run into any who
even know about binary newsgroups, fortunately.

But the funniest were the ones who's Dell came set up to Defrag AND Deep
Scan their the entire 60GB HD EVERY time they booted it up. They just
thought it was normal for a computer to take a half-hour to start up. And
yet they still turned it off whenever they weren't using it!

by **Eldre** » Sat, 22 May 2004 02:51:16

I just worked on a system for a lady in the office. No viruses, but it
Ad-Aware got 782 hits! It's amazing how much faster the system runs now that
those are cleared.<g>

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by **Peter Ive** » Sat, 22 May 2004 08:59:01

Sorted a mate's computer out after his ISP refused to allow him to send
out any more emails until his system was looked at as it was just
emailing out viruses everywhere. AV software found over 300! virus
infected files. It was amazing it ran at all. :)
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by **Rich** » Sat, 22 May 2004 11:11:53

Evidence Eliminator...
Cleans Registry Streams, Hidden Start, Run,Click, History menus, Application
logs, Erroneous Binary Data, *.tmp files, hidden java scripts,
subkeys....(the list goes on) and then defragments the registry and compacts
it.
Best piece of software I've ever had for increasing performance...and
privacy.

by **Tim Wheatle** » Sat, 22 May 2004 11:34:26

Yep, first thing I do for my mates when they get a PC is format it and
install the software for them they actually need and want.

by **Tim Wheatle** » Sat, 22 May 2004 11:36:24

They can't spread if they kill the user pc. Only those meant to cause mass
financial harm really effect major system files.

> >> They had 3 different viruses, 80+ infected files and about 150 spyware
> >>programs. You shoulda seen the husband's face go slack when I told him
> >>that somebody knew every site he had been too. :)

> >I just worked on a system for a lady in the office. No viruses, but it
> >Ad-Aware got 782 hits! It's amazing how much faster the system runs now
> >that
> >those are cleared.<g>

> Sorted a mate's computer out after his ISP refused to allow him to send
> out any more emails until his system was looked at as it was just
> emailing out viruses everywhere. AV software found over 300! virus
> infected files. It was amazing it ran at all. :)
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> Peter Ives (AKA Pete Ivington)
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> If you know what's good for you, don't listen to me :)
> GPLRank Joystick -50.63 Wheel -25.01

by **Ruud Dingeman** » Sat, 22 May 2004 14:54:48

> Evidence Eliminator...
> Cleans Registry Streams, Hidden Start, Run,Click, History menus, Application
> logs, Erroneous Binary Data, *.tmp files, hidden java scripts,
> subkeys....(the list goes on) and then defragments the registry and compacts
> it.
> Best piece of software I've ever had for increasing performance...and
> privacy.

Or, just use a Mac ;)

Best piece of hardware available for increasing performance (well.. if
you get a G5, anyway) and certainly privacy.

Believe it or not, but there's an advantage to just not having Windows
installed - it makes virtually immune :)

(Even though it's basically a BSD Unix these days...)

Regards, Rudy
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by **Damien Evan** » Sat, 22 May 2004 16:50:54

It seems Macs are still relatively popular in the US but everywhere else
they're very obscure. Still quite big in professional desktop publishing
but that's about it.

by **Uwe Sch??rkam** » Sat, 22 May 2004 17:39:22

> Best piece of software I've ever had for increasing performance...and
> privacy.

Linux works quite well in all these aspects, too ;-)

Cheers,

Uwe

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by **Eldre** » Sat, 22 May 2004 20:59:14

Thanks for the info - I'll check it out.

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by **Eldre** » Sat, 22 May 2004 21:01:48

But the big disadvantage it that I couldn't run a lot of the stuff that I run
now. That, and the fact that I couldn't justify spending money that I don't
have to get yet ANOTHER computer platform...

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by **Larr** » Sun, 23 May 2004 02:40:12

Spyware is the bane of my existance right now. It's taking up around 30% of
my available support time.

And you can't just run one utility any more. You have to run several to get
it all. I run, in order, CWShredder, SpyBot 1.3 and then Adaware 6.

-Larry

by **Larr** » Sun, 23 May 2004 02:42:22

There's another exploit out there now that's really killing systems. If you
go to the wrong site, it puts up a window that says "Your system is infected
by Spyware. Click here to download, or for a free scan, or ....." As soon
as you touch the window, even to CLOSE it, whammo! You get nailed with
several multi-level exploits that are damned near impossible to get rid of.

-Larry

> <snip>You shoulda seen the husband's face go slack when I told him
> that somebody knew every site he had been too. :)<snip>

> Yup... ;-) Same reaction I get when I point people to AV, Spybot and
> Adaware and they find hordes of nasties on their systems. The ones that
DL
> lots of music via P2P are the worst-hit, it seems. Haven't run into any
who
> even know about binary newsgroups, fortunately.

> But the funniest were the ones who's Dell came set up to Defrag AND Deep
> Scan their the entire 60GB HD EVERY time they booted it up. They just
> thought it was normal for a computer to take a half-hour to start up. And
> yet they still turned it off whenever they weren't using it!

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