So while I was gone, I had a couple people use my computer.
We'll call them Mr A and Mr Z.
Mr A was doing work on my computer and playing games. He ran a patch for Far Cry and installed a couple of pirated shitty games which I promptly deleted.
Mr Z was helping him do some work and ran Spybot and a number of other programs to get my computer "running better".
Mr A checked my email for me.
When I got home from Phoenix, my CPU was constantly pinned at 100% and I had like 30 extra EXEs running in Taskmgr that weren't there before. I wasn't happy!
Norton would run, but would close immediately. I had to do something so I ran an online Virus scanner and it promptly found 100's of viruses. I managed to get rid of a couple viruses that caused Norton to crash, and proceeded to run Norton overnight on all 6 of my 120+ gig drives.
I woke up to find over 45,000 infected files, and over 60 different viruses.
Before I left for Phoenix, I had none.
I opened Outlook and, as always, got flooded with Virus mails. I scrolled down and found that while I was gone, someone had marked as read over 100 virus emails. Did Mr A read, and then save-as the virus attachments and run them?
Did the Spyware removal software, Spybot, cause this? Was it some sort of hacked version, intent on destroying my computer?
What happened? I guess we'll never know. Now I'm working on a computer I bought yesterday, while my poor computer sits in a corner, ready to be formatted for duties as a gaming machine.
We'll call them Mr A and Mr Z.
Mr A was doing work on my computer and playing games. He ran a patch for Far Cry and installed a couple of pirated shitty games which I promptly deleted.
Mr Z was helping him do some work and ran Spybot and a number of other programs to get my computer "running better".
Mr A checked my email for me.
When I got home from Phoenix, my CPU was constantly pinned at 100% and I had like 30 extra EXEs running in Taskmgr that weren't there before. I wasn't happy!
Norton would run, but would close immediately. I had to do something so I ran an online Virus scanner and it promptly found 100's of viruses. I managed to get rid of a couple viruses that caused Norton to crash, and proceeded to run Norton overnight on all 6 of my 120+ gig drives.
I woke up to find over 45,000 infected files, and over 60 different viruses.
Before I left for Phoenix, I had none.
I opened Outlook and, as always, got flooded with Virus mails. I scrolled down and found that while I was gone, someone had marked as read over 100 virus emails. Did Mr A read, and then save-as the virus attachments and run them?
Did the Spyware removal software, Spybot, cause this? Was it some sort of hacked version, intent on destroying my computer?
What happened? I guess we'll never know. Now I'm working on a computer I bought yesterday, while my poor computer sits in a corner, ready to be formatted for duties as a gaming machine.
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