| Windows 7: Most Viruses ever seen? |
22 Jun 2010
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#1 | | Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit In a house with a cat trying to kill me |
Most Viruses ever seen? I'm just curious, what's the most viruses/malware anyone has ever seen on a PC?
The most I ever saw was about a year ago cleaning up a laptop from my wife's brother that he let the kids use for about 1 1/2 years until it would barely run.
I used AVG and it deleted 437 viruses/malware items and the boot up procedure/clean up ran for over 6 hours.
This was a laptop that was 3 years old.
PS...the reason I had to run this instead of doing a clean install? They lost the restore disk that came with it
Last edited by Borg 386; 22 Jun 2010 at 05:16 PM..
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| System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Hell oh Well OS Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit CPU Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93GHz Memory Not much with my ADHD Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 4350 Monitor(s) Displays I have one...It's bright. A 19 inch CRT actually. Keyboard It's 10 years old and amazingly still works Mouse Same deal with the mouse, 10 yrs old, if it ain't broke... Case Don't get on my case...man :D Cooling I have an Air Conditioner & Diet Pepsi Hard Drives 250 GB Main Drive, 2 - 1 TB Externals, various FD's. |
22 Jun 2010
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#2 | | 7 Ultimate x64 California |
That would have to be one of my brothers-in-law... who is routinely bringing his machine here for clean up. Although, lol, it's never been that bad. | My System Specs | | OS 7 Ultimate x64 CPU i5-2500k Motherboard Asus P8P67 Pro Memory 8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X F3-12800CL7D-8GBXH 1866MHz 8-9-8-24 Graphics Card EVGA GTX 570 SC Sound Card X-Fi Titanium Fatality Monitor(s) Displays Samsung S27A550H 27" LED Screen Resolution 1920x1080 Keyboard MS Natural Elite 4000 Ergonomic Mouse Logitech G500 PSU PC Power & Cooling Silencer 760 Case Lian Li Lancool K62 Cooling Thermalright Venomous X Black/Scythe S-Flex/Shin-Etsu X23 Hard Drives OCZ Vertex 3 120GB.
1TB Samsung F3.
2TB Samsung F4. Internet Speed 6MB/768 Other Info Logitech Z-5500 505 watts.
D-Link DGL-4500.
Tripp-Lite Smart Pro 1500. |
22 Jun 2010
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#3 | | Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit California |

Quote: Originally Posted by Borg 386 I'm just curious, what's the most viruses/malware anyone has ever seen on a PC?
The most I ever saw was about a year ago cleaning up a laptop from my wife's brother that he let the kids use for about 1 1/2 years until it would barely run.
I used AVG and it deleted 437 viruses/malware items and the boot up procedure/clean up ran for over 6 hours.
This was a laptop that was 3 years old
I did the same thing for my neighbors laptop, with over 400 viruses, and was there 5hrs. For Free
Then they hired a guy to come in to fix something, charged them $30,left in 20 minutes and they couldn't figure out why it took me so long!
I won't do that again.
Yeah, I probably will. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP M9077c OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit CPU Intel(R)Core(TM)2 quad Q6600@2.4GHz 2.39GHz Motherboard ASUSeK Memory 6GB DDR2 6400 Graphics Card GeForce 8500/512MB Sound Card Realtek High Def Audio Monitor(s) Displays HP w2408 LCD 24" widescreen Screen Resolution 1920x1200 Keyboard MS wireless Inteli Mouse MS wireless Inteli Cooling 6 pack of Bud |
22 Jun 2010
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#4 | | Windows 7 Professional 64bit Alabama |
My brother's hand me down i built, he had it for about 2 years i believe, i ran a scan and it came up with 200+. dont remember the exact number | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Myself OS Windows 7 Professional 64bit CPU AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor 2.8GHz Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-MA785GMT-UD2H Memory 4 gigs DDR3 Dual Channel Graphics Card Radeon HD 5770 1gig video RAM Sound Card Realtek ALC889A Monitor(s) Displays Dell E770s 17in Screen Resolution 1024x768 Keyboard Micro Inovations Mouse Microsoft optical mouse PSU Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W Case Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Cooling 4 Fans Hard Drives 1 x 250gb seagate Internet Speed 22 mbps download 1 mbps upload |
22 Jun 2010
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#5 | | Windows 8, Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, Pear Linux Triple Boot Never been to Heaven.... |
For my mother in-law, she had over 300 virus/malware. I had noticed as well they hadn't ran the scanner for over a year, but kept it up to date lol
Geeve | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Dimension E521 OS Windows 8, Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, Pear Linux Triple Boot CPU AMD AthlonTM 64 X2 dual-core Memory 3 GB Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 4350 1GB Sound Card M-Audio Mobile Pre USB External Monitor(s) Displays Acer 1916W x2 Screen Resolution 1440X900 Keyboard Dell PSU 300 Watt Hard Drives 250 GB internal main, 500 GB internal backup, 1TB External |
22 Jun 2010
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#6 | | Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 Florida in winter, Black Forest/Germany |
We had to cleanup 6 PCs of our computer club. They were infected mainly by people copying stuff from USB sticks they had brought in. It took one week since each PC had 3 operating systems installed. All systems were "protected" by AVG. I did not count the number of nasties, but there were many. Suffice to say that we do not use AVG any more. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops OS Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 CPU from 1.6GHz Duo to i7 Monitor(s) Displays 2x HP w2207 Keyboard with trackball - no mices Mouse Trackball mice Hard Drives 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals Internet Speed DSL 6000 |
22 Jun 2010
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#7 | | Win7 Home Premium x64 SP1, Archlinux x86_64 Naranjito, PR |
Hmm i would have to say an old xp machine i used to use..was really careless long ago never had no firewall or anti-virus.. and when i did put an AV on it..cleaned up about 500+ took forever and a day.. there was probably alot left over then what it cleaned lol. | My System Specs | | OS Win7 Home Premium x64 SP1, Archlinux x86_64 |
22 Jun 2010
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#8 | | Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Canada |
Most I have seen is 375,000 when BitDefender thought every single file on my PC was a virus. Ended up killing the computer once BD ate it from the inside out. Entire process took about 7 minutes and happened on 2 computers. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number MSI GX660r OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 CPU Intel Core i7 740qm Memory 6GB DDR3 Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB DDR5 Screen Resolution 1920*1080 Keyboard Logitech G11 Multimedia Gaming Keyboard Mouse Logitech G9 Wired Precision Gaming Mouse Cooling Rocketfish Laptop Cooling Pad Hard Drives 2x320 GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue in Raid 0 Other Info Logitech x-540 5.1 Speaker System |
22 Jun 2010
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#9 | | Win7 Home Premium x64 SP1, Archlinux x86_64 Naranjito, PR |
I don't think that counts as that was most likely the bad update from BitDefender. | My System Specs | | OS Win7 Home Premium x64 SP1, Archlinux x86_64 |
22 Jun 2010
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#10 | | Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Canada |

Quote: Originally Posted by Nem I don't think that counts as that was most likely the bad update from BitDefender. It was the faulty update, still showed that many "virus'" though | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number MSI GX660r OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 CPU Intel Core i7 740qm Memory 6GB DDR3 Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB DDR5 Screen Resolution 1920*1080 Keyboard Logitech G11 Multimedia Gaming Keyboard Mouse Logitech G9 Wired Precision Gaming Mouse Cooling Rocketfish Laptop Cooling Pad Hard Drives 2x320 GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue in Raid 0 Other Info Logitech x-540 5.1 Speaker System Most Viruses ever seen? problems? All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:52 PM. | |