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[chaobell]

Ad-Aware scan performed on customer's machine today:

Comments

[kyndig.livejournal.com]

holy shit!!!!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

geez!
i'm guessing the computer belonged to an elderly person?

-Gilligan from EUTS

[melodychild77.livejournal.com]

OMG.... THat just freaked me out! I gotta do a scan now...right now, I tell ya!

GreatFsckingGods!

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

It booted far enough to run Ad-Aware?

Or perhaps

[the-btfh.livejournal.com]

This could be any AOL user at all. I swear to God I had this guy when I worked for them

[lizzistardust.livejournal.com]

HOLY CRAP!!!

I can't believe they didn't notice anything wrong LONG before this point.

[cmdrproteus.livejournal.com]

Dayum!!! The sad part is that it could be one of millions of clueless users on the Internet who says Yes to every dialog box that pops up! X(

[achernow.livejournal.com]

Wow.

-A

[inahandbasket]

rotflmao
yeah, that beat my desk's best by an order of magnitude

[said-by-me.livejournal.com]

damn I thought when I had a user with 850 something that was bad. I surprised they were even functional

Re: GreatFsckingGods!

[chaobell]

Yeah, I couldn't believe it either. It was slower than the Second Coming, but it ran.

[sebism.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[random-c.livejournal.com]

I was hoping a friend of mine had mentioned the machine with over 80k virus-infected files on his LJ, but sadly it looks like he only mentioned it on IRC. That was rural wales, BTW...

[pavel-lishin.livejournal.com]

Don't make fun of my parents. :(

[jonyoon.livejournal.com]

Someone get Guinness Book of World Records or TechTV! This definately needs to be in the news!

[glennarbor.livejournal.com]

no doubt i'm sure the screen savers would enjoy the story.

[(Anonymous)]

A typical AOL user...

[bigsexxxy.livejournal.com]

I smell a screenshot contest coming on, who can beat that score?

[corpslave.livejournal.com]

damn!

Re: Or perhaps

[glenathon.livejournal.com]

Hey...I recognize that icon. Did you find that from a certain Photoshop book?

[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

Damn.

And I thought my fiance's customer (957 objects) was bad.

[mackensen.livejournal.com]

Hang on, if that's accurate (40298 objects out of about 106,000), are we to understand that roughly 40% of this person's machine was devoted to adware? That's remarkable...

[wildkard.livejournal.com]

Those could all be cookies or something too, remember that adaware classfies a lot of fairly passive things (stored banner ad viewing info, personal settings for some programs) as ads. As well it should of course. On the other hand, if those are all actual programs/apps, then all the other comments made here apply. :)

[amblyopia.livejournal.com]

that's what I'm thinking... seems unlikely...

[chaobell]

It's true. I didn't look at the entire list of shit, but a lot of it was cookies. There were, however, about FIVE BAZILLION DIALERS. As in, about five or six pages of scroll worth. I've never seen anything like it.

[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

Think how happy the poor thing must've been after having had all that cleaned off of it (yes, I anthropomorphize computers, shut up).

I'm assuming you fixed the permissions on this person's machine so he/she could never install anything again, ever.

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

Great googly-moogly.

Granted that a lot of those are probably just cookies, but still... I find myself reaching for the install media when my clients merely rack up a score of 500. Hell, the client who's 13-year-old son browsed porn on her office computer didn't manage to break four figures.

"Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

[trenthamfamily.livejournal.com]

Oh mah goodness. Impressive!

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Hey, not ALL aol users are that bad.

I'm one. I scan my system twice a week, and get 2, maybe 3 objects per scan.