Now THAT'S what I call a virus infection.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

A client gave me a computer to work on because he thought it was acting funky, so I started my usual cleanup routine. When I installed and began running SpyBot Search & Destroy on it, it started discovering registry entries relating to something called "Win32.Agent.cmn"- it's been scanning well over an hour now and this one trojan so far has over thirty thousand registry entries. And it's still not finished.

People, PLEASE protect your computers. Install a GOOD antivirus program. Install Spybot and run it at a regular interval. It's free. It's easy to use. They update the database regularly.

If you don't take some steps, someone like me will be working on YOUR computer- at a price of $60 per hour and more.

SpyBot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
McAfee Antivirus http://www.McAfee.com
AVG Antivirus http://www.Grisoft.com

...and more... http://www.6starreview.com/Antivirus-Software.aspx?Refer=1GAV&Keyword=Eantivirus&gclid=CMPM2L3AoZICFQx7PAodrDVPRA

Update: Final count = 30,801 registry entries.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Prisoner_Number_Six!

Yikes!

I do have the AVG, and the SpyBot...

How scary...:scared:

Good thing you know how to fix things, huh?

:hi:

[hobbit709]

2. I had one come in recently

had 1857 different viruses and 942 spyware/malware items. The worst one was called WebHancer. smitfraud is easy to clean compared to that one.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. I've tangled with WebHancer.

It's pure evil.

[BreweryYardRat]

4. Say, what do you think of Antivir as an antivirus program?

And damn, that may be some sort of record for "most infected machine."

[leeroysphitz]

5. My wife gets nailed on her machine all the time.

I'm all the time running hijackthis, combofix, ad-aware, spy-bot and her anti-virus for to clean up her surprisingly frequent malware issues.

The ironic thing is I'm the one pulling binaries off of usenet and files from emule (almost daily) including .exe's and I've NEVER got hit. (knock on wood.) But If did get nailed bad enough I'd rather just reformat than give someone sixty bucks to fix it. (I back up religiously.)

Have fun!