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135K viruses on 1 PC ???
Yes, 135, 000 viruses on 1 computer. ;( And I thought 9K was the max for my network 
We recently moved to a new antivirus, and i suspected that those 10K and 135K machines did not have any antivirus installed on them.
Time to kick some a$$.
We recently moved to a new antivirus, and i suspected that those 10K and 135K machines did not have any antivirus installed on them.
Time to kick some a$$.
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disi
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There is no OS Type
What does the machine actual do?
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JDMurray
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With that many hits I would think someone was purposely storing a Malware collection on that box. Were most of the positives in only a few folders or in several ZIP or RAR files? That would indicate someone may have purposely downloaded them as Malware collections from Web sites or P2P networks.
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You sure that's not picked up another antivirus' signature database on that machine ?Kam.
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That's a very interesting idea, but I've had multiple A/V's running on a single machine and they never had that sort of false positive problem with each other's lists. Maybe a decrypted A/V signature file was downloaded to the machine; the A/V would show all 135K hits were from that one file. Or maybe it's just 135K EICAR files.You sure that's not picked up another antivirus' signature database on that machine ?
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WTF anti virus protection are you running? Norton? lolMicrosoft's strategy to conquer the I.T industry
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OptionsKaminsky
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That's a very interesting idea, but I've had multiple A/V's running on a single machine and they never had that sort of false positive problem with each other's lists. Maybe a decrypted A/V signature file was downloaded to the machine; the A/V would show all 135K hits were from that one file. Or maybe it's just 135K EICAR files.
I've seen this a few times where two AVs go head to head and the machine is practically unusable as they battle it out.Kam. -
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That workstation is used by library personnel and students alike. We suspect that some staff member was using it to download illegal software/movies and songs on it.
JDMurray
With that many hits I would think someone was purposely storing a Malware collection on that box. Were most of the positives in only a few folders or in several ZIP or RAR files? That would indicate someone may have purposely downloaded them as Malware collections from Web sites or P2P networks.
I have this happen before but never in this quantity yet. This usually happens when an anti-virus can not totaly clean the malware and leaves out some start-up files. And after the reboot the malware installs itself all over again.
