Record for most pests found with Pestpatrol?

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by ComputerGate, Aug 28, 2005.

  1. ComputerGate

    ComputerGate Specialist

    I recently helped an internet friend clean an incredibly
    infected computer up via messenger (10 hours!!).
    Well anyway I had her run my favorite anti-spyware app,
    Pestpatrol and it got, get this, 6,400 hits!!!
    I am not kidding. Six thousand four hundred spyware hits.
    She was running an XP machine on high speed cable modem
    for around 12-15 hours a day for a year and a half with
    no anti-spyware/adware utility. She did have an outdated
    Norton antivirus running, so we only found 4 viruses (via a new
    copy of Norton).
    But Adaware SE found several hundred critical hits as did
    Spybot S&D also.
    I just wondered if anybody has ever seen a machine that was
    that loaded up?
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    How many items were just cookies or MRUs?

    Yes we have seen hit counts this high but cookies and MRUs are not problems in most cases.
     
  3. ComputerGate

    ComputerGate Specialist

    As high as 6,400 hits on Pestpatrol? Holy cow, what do these people
    do on these computers??
    I guess the anti-spyware companies should
    be thanking Microsoft for active-x.
    I wonder if Longhorn is going to stubbornly stick with active-x?
     

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