We suggest taking it out to the parking lot and dousing it in gasoline. Here's some matches.

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You thought 10K in Ad-aware was bad?

A friend of mine who works at the local CompUSA told me the tale of a machine that finally locked up somewhere around 400,000.

And if that's not scary enough, how about a 90-car pileup?

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Re: Not impossible:

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Yeah, I don't disagree with the end result. It's worth it to be able to say:

"You had x thousand instances, which translates to about y hundred different programs all collecting information about you. Do you have CC insurance? Cause if you don't, and you have been purchasing online, I would definitely get it."

I just checked again to see, Spybot checks for 17,889 different files/registry changes/cookies while ad-aware checks for maybe 20 some thousand different ones (don't know about corporate edition). The big thing is that they all fix the 5 or 6 so major ad/spywares, like CoolWebSearch, various breeds of Gator, and WebRebates.

I suppose you are right about the temp file issue. But still, it could very well have been maybe 90 pieces of spyware, one of which was on the computer leaving randomly named files for the last 3 years.