Re: FN-FORUM: Help - MS Vista problems

date posted 27th April 2007 18:57

They had limewire installed.. say no more.

It was 4500 infected files. There was a noticable speed difference
once they were cleared out.

How many viruses run as processes?

They also had no firewall.

There was also loads and loads of zip files in a directory - thousands
in fact. None of these files were complete and the guy denied any
knowledge of them. Looking at the filenames it seems like the machine
was hijacked. Well known software names.... way too many to have ever
fitted on his laptop..

On 27 Apr 2007 17:45:39 -0000, Tom Miller [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> > lol. I had a customer say the same to me a couple of weeks ago. If
> > you have never installed a virus checker, how the hell do you know
> > you've NEVER had a virus??
> >
> > BTW - I installed AVG on this customers PC and removed 4500 viruses.
> I don't. I do however know each process that is running and have never
> spotted anything untoward. I'm also totally anal about installing
> anything, plus my email gets virus checked anyway (so maybe that's
> slightly cheating). I also have a hardware firewall.
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> 4,500 - that's pretty hard to believe. How much disk space did that free
> up? :)
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