Today, the dubious award of 'Most spyware objects found on a single workstation at my university' goes to workstation #347 in the corner of one of the computer rooms with a massive 8304 spyware objects detected, of which 98 couldn't be removed.
It took about 20mins to complete the scan, and a futher 15 or so minutes to delete. Most of the files were VX2 files in the browser cache. On the scratch directory (which anyone can access and use) there were various P2P apps that are known to install spyware onto your system. This is an indication of the carelessness of some users!
This goes to show you that if you are not sensible with what applications you download or fail to use adequate protection against threats on the internet, you can end up in a similar situation
I swear that the picture below is not altered in any way:
It took about 20mins to complete the scan, and a futher 15 or so minutes to delete. Most of the files were VX2 files in the browser cache. On the scratch directory (which anyone can access and use) there were various P2P apps that are known to install spyware onto your system. This is an indication of the carelessness of some users!
This goes to show you that if you are not sensible with what applications you download or fail to use adequate protection against threats on the internet, you can end up in a similar situation
I swear that the picture below is not altered in any way: