Most Viruses ever seen?

[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.

PS...the reason I had to run this instead of doing a clean install? They lost the restore disk that came with it

 

[Fumz]

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.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

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.

 

[starwolf1336]

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

 

[geeve420]

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

 

[whs]

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.

 

[Nem]

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.

 

[Extensa]

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.

 

[Nem]

I don't think that counts as that was most likely the bad update from BitDefender.

 

[Extensa]

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

 

[arkhi]

The most I've seen was 7 years ago- 100 unique viruses. Now that I've think of it, maybe we should all go crazy and open up a fresh VM, visit a porn site, and click like CRAAAAZYYY! XD

Let's see who gets the most!


This is pure kiddingness, of course.

 

[Billy]

A year and a half ago (when I was taking my A+ course) we ran an in class computer repair / low-end used computer shop and I ran a virus scan on a computer that had around 53,000 viruses before I decided to just stop it and format the drive. Crazy stuff.

 

[AlexRD]

My brother's laptop. 65.000 basically, the virus made it look like all the files were viruses, if i remember it correctly. i dont know for sure though.

 

[mistersmiff]

Fixed a coworker's PC. He had a teenage daughter who installed EVERYTHING that popped up on the web. and she had friends who obviously helped. Found 21,000+ instances of malware including bad cookies. had to find 2,000, stop scan, delete, repeat to keep from crashing it.

 

[jeremyv]

Around 100 plus on my boss PC. We just reformat the drive just to make sure.

 

[Thorsen]

These seem real high. i usually dont count cookies and when I first saw this thread I was thinking. I have seen about 15 on one computer. but there were over 300-400 files affected. I have cleaned up over 3Gigs of HD space from Malware, but the most actual unique viruses (virii?) was about 15.

As for the Bit-Defender one. wow that sucks.

 

[AussieGuy92]

the most that i have even seen was on the laptop that i am using now i had AVG 8.5 pro installed and it let in over 600 virus which downloaded more just reformated and thought it was time to learn more about viruses and computers in general.