Spyware Challenge! You Got The Guts There, Nerd Master!?!? (free Prize Inside)

18 search toolbars and still going strong woot

I want to see a screenie of 18 search bars. I love those pictures . . . I'm a nerd that way. But uber cool in all other respects

Z

DANG, I should not have told mt brother about spybot & adaware & hyjack this(although the fist time he used it he messssed his computer up) I have fixed his computer a few times and it was LOADED.

PS the other day he claimed that FahCore_65.exe was causing pop-up porn

heres the toolbars .. this is so funny . i cant stop laughing when 25 popups at time attack

bigjake said:

heres the toolbars .. this is so funny . i cant stop laughing when 25 popups at time attack

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Keep it up. soon you will not have a window you can surf from

Wow bigjake, with all those toolbars, you should have more "added functionality" than you know what to do with.

I'm actually surprised all those load without any killing eachother.

lol that this is great and before the power flickered at night i had about 500 objects but i gave up cause the only comp i have is the one that i need the most so i decided to stop and watch you guys battle it out

I.M.O.G. said:

Wow bigjake, with all those toolbars, you should have more "added functionality" than you know what to do with.

I'm actually surprised all those load without any killing eachother.

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actually 2 of the "useful" toolbars are disabled and not showing because they use so freaking much memory that they lock it up. I have the resolution at 1024 and will not be remotely satisfied until my entire ie is toolbars..

I was kinda wondering how much RAM that was eating up. I laughed out loud real hard when I seen that IE.

I wish I still had the logs for a customers machine I did long ago.. damnit damnit damnit.... Before It rebooted for the last time** the most recent scans found DUN DUN

47,791 Spyware objects (in Adaware)
1,598 Detected Virii (Norton 2002 pro edition)

all on a pitiful windows 98 computer...

Oh well =\
Too bad I cant afford to screw up any computer right now. mine are all hanging on by a thread lol.

**-between cleans/scans I was rebooting to scan on startup. the last time it rebooted it came up with an "error loading jaboehggwe.dll unable to load windows" followed by a BSoD. a reboot after that and the friendly "Operating System not Found"

On second thought, I think im going to do this. I realized I can just unplug everything, install a clean drive, install windows and GOGOGO muahaahaha.

BTW, has any kind of point system been decided? since if like more procceese=more points or vice versa I might change the things I go for. or is it stil 1=1?

Oh well, time to get cracking! yer going down gustav!

bigjake said:

heres the toolbars .. this is so funny . i cant stop laughing when 25 popups at time attack

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I hereby dub this picture the funniest picture on the internet.

Right pik4chu... If I were using my own system on this, I would drop a fresh image down, then install deepfreeze on this new installation... Anything infecting me would have nothing but windows to roam around on more or less - no really important information it could harvest, and after I rebooted it'd be ready to finish installing apps and all like it was good as new.

Right now, I'm leaning towards the side of everything being equal still... With the contingency that if I think any part of your infection was hoaxed it will be thrown out.

The problem comes in with assigning point values... I don't see assigning points with almost random value ratios to each sort of spyware component better than everything just being worth equal value. In order to do a good job assigning points correctly, we would need to recognize some average trends in results produced, then award points in a ratio which reflected the different severity's and difficulty to get between processes, files, reg keys... Bottom line, if we did points, it would be half-assed and inaccurate still.

Better to just keep it simple as possible, and watch for hoaxing attempts to pump up results - netsky would be a good thing to get, but manipulating your directory structure to make the infection appear worse than it is will not get you anywhere. Legitimate infections.

Negator said:

I hereby dub this picture the funniest picture on the internet.

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i work with bigjake and we are doing this at work.... all i can say it there are even more toolbars now

when we come in in the morning we have to restart the machine, there are so many pop ups it wont run..... but we are up over 20 "tool" bars now... we'll give screenie when were done...

I am thinking this challenge is making a lot of spyware dealers very happy right now....

After thinking about it, Netsky and such are just unfair to count. I mean, if you do a virus scan and come up with a mass mailer, chances are you've got thousands of virus files on your computer. But you still only have one virus . . . Having seen the toolbar screenshot alone makes this contest worthwhile if you ask me.

Z

Two winners if two people impress me enough...

1) One for RAW numbers

2) One for raw infections (recognized objects mean nothing here), but it has to be enough that I'm impressed. Haven't been impressed in this category yet.

I had a customers machine with XP that had 88,800+ spyware found by Ad Aware. Was an older laptop that took like 3 full days to scan and remove all that junk :/ One of the other guys had a customers machine that he ended up finding over 200k worth of spyware :/

I'm most definately gonna try this...heck, I already have an XP/98 dualboot setup w/a partition on my 80gb slave on it *just* for the times I need to poke around places that could infect me (not porn, mind you ). Lately I haven't had to though. I'm gonna be doing work on this case/rig soon anyways, so I guess I'm gonna take a bunch of the sub-10gb drives I have and start collectin! If anyone wants to rent a 3-4gb drive for a week...


One thing I'd like to add - try not to infect others via email/p2p software shares. If you know what's going onto your system to a certain extent, try to get the really contagious stuff last...

Im at 62,426... Im letting Netsky dump itself into my computer. iM trying to get some more l33t ****, but before netsky hit me i was at 4,890 Critical items.

However RPC crashes whenever i run adaware, so i have a little problem taking a screenshot..

this may be rough.... but i think i won. if i can be l33t enough to keep rpc from crashing..

[EDIT]NM i figgured it out, ill be back later with the screenshot and logfile.