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[caerleon.livejournal.com]

As this community has been pointed out to me, I thought I'd better stick something up..

What are peoples records for virus infestation?.. the highest number of infected files on one stand-alone PC here is 82,137..

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[oddball42.livejournal.com]

damn i impressed.

the largest number i had messed with in years has been 2 or 3

prior to that was a 95 box wich had about 200.

wow. 83k... you win!

[codedigital.livejournal.com]

Infected files: 110,098
Spyware/Adware: 60,561

[omicron32.livejournal.com]

Most I've seen was around 6000, however that was from the Netsky virus.

[teraflops.livejournal.com]

88,000+ infected files. A combination of five different bagle variants, sobig, mydoom, and two more obscure ones I can't remember. It took six hours and seven reboots using various AV and Spyware-removal tools to clean the machine up.
My one and only housecall, this one.

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

The most I ever got was somewhere in the 10k range, but that was in the days of DOS and Real Viruses.

[linguafranca.livejournal.com]

Our record is nowhere close.

One of my co-workers claims AVG found 5,000+ infected on a customer's computer, and that made me go o_O .

[taleya.livejournal.com]

well, we still haven't gotten the virus scan back from one customer....but we canned his account because he sent out no less than 162,000 virus-driven Spam emails in four hours....

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

My best for Ad-aware spyware objects is 1000 something. User couldn't open anything that used the run32.dll - control panel, IE, etc. Had to start\run and type in the location just to install and run Ad-Aware.

[swwinchester.livejournal.com]

I work at a walk-in tech counter. The absolute worst we've seen so far was an infection spanning 385,329 files. Yes. You read that number right.

It was a mix of a few nasties ; the customer finally brought it in because Blaster.a kept crashing the system. The customer also refused our requests to apply some antivirus software to the system, stating that it "degrades system performance, and the machine is bad enough as it is".

Seems that for a good, long while prior, they had a fairly quiet (meaning not enough bad stuff occuring to make them want to bring it in) virus that spread via Kazaa ... I can't remember the name, I just saw the photo of the screen after we were done running Norton as a post-check.

Needless to say, the customer decided it might be best to put antivirus software in after that ...