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76,000 viruses.... how likely?
Disgruntled:
I have recently had some cpu performance slowdown, nothing major, just some lagging here and there. My wife ran an online scan on her friends advice. It was called housecalls by some company I cant think of offhand.
So the scan takes 6 hours and says of the 94000 files scanned there are 76000 viruses or infected files. It said they were uncleanable. I scanned with AVG and none of them showed up.
While it was scanning the files I caught most of the names and location. They were all porn names and in zip files. I know 100% I did not ever view or download these 76000 porn zips just by some of the titles. They were also in alphabetical order.
I searched for these files in windows explorer, but none showed up. The location during the scan was Documents and Settings/ complete/. I searched high and lo for these files but they are not readily found thru the regular search methods. Even if I search for " zip. "[ which was in every title ] none of them show up.
I used BC wipe to clean my slack files and freespace and it showed all of these files as it scanned. I checked my freespace and still only have 8 gigs free, so it did not wipe them.
Anyone have any thoughts? please help.....
cymon:
You can try the MS solution, Format & Reinstall, or the MSuck solution, which is format and install linux.
Oh and for future refrence, this is not a goddamn Windows help forum. I really don't see what's so hard about this, it's microsuck.com after all.
Orethrius:
Besides, you've been initiated into the wonderful world of "pop-up scan" scams that comes with your ownership of Windows. It's rather funny when you see those little panes appear on non-Microsoft systems, telling you how "Windows" has been compromised (even on a VAX). I'm guessing that you want to retain your legitimate files until such a time as you can get off of Windows for good, so the best advice I can give you is to run SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard (JavaCoolSoftware), Ad-Aware (LavaSoft), and Spybot (Spybot.info) to remove the majority of the spyware those "scans" likely left behind. After taking those initial steps, consider switching to Linux, BSD, BeOS Dev - or take your continued issues to http://www.windowsbbs.com.
Pathos:
do you know the exact path to any of the supposably infected files ?
The only way you wont be able to see them if they are there is if a rootkit is installed.
boot up knoppix, mount the drive and then you can see every file whether windows hides it or not. If it exists you have a problem ...
solemnwarning:
--- Quote from: Orethrius ---Besides, you've been initiated into the wonderful world of "pop-up scan" scams that comes with your ownership of Windows. It's rather funny when you see those little panes appear on non-Microsoft systems, telling you how "Windows" has been compromised (even on a VAX). I'm guessing that you want to retain your legitimate files until such a time as you can get off of Windows for good, so the best advice I can give you is to run SpywareBlaster and SpywareGuard (JavaCoolSoftware), Ad-Aware (LavaSoft), and Spybot (Spybot.info) to remove the majority of the spyware those "scans" likely left behind. After taking those initial steps, consider switching to Linux, BSD, BeOS Dev - or take your continued issues to http://www.windowsbbs.com.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, btw according to some ads and popups my non-existant winshite xp install needs spyware scanning and registery fixing :)
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