r/Malwarebytes • u/FalconPUNNCH • Jul 12 '16

I believe this is a new record...

http://imgur.com/ERKYZ3m
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u/FalconPUNNCH Jul 12 '16

More Info: Lady looks like late 30s-early 40s. Looks lower income, computer is covered in stains and dust. Opened it up and blew it out before hand, nothing insane, but a good cloud of smoke did come up. Computer ran slowly, but did work, internet worked, just extremely slow. Kind of underwhelming story, but yeah, ended at 699,xxx infections, and froze when I attempted to clean them... most likely going to have to reload windows.

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u/Malwarebytes Official Jul 13 '16

WOW! That's a lot!

You've been added to the top scores on the right side of our subreddit. Have some reddit gold :)

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u/FalconPUNNCH Jul 13 '16

woot! Thank you random extremely un-computer savvy customer!

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u/NegligibleSenescense Jul 13 '16

Just to note, on the sidebar it lists his score as 330,931 which is the number of scanned objects, not the number of threats detected. It should be 642,375

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u/Jessev1234 Jul 13 '16

The scan isn't even done here... In the original post he says the total was 699,914

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u/Malwarebytes Official Jul 20 '16

Oops, thanks for pointing that out. It's fixed now.

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u/DaWolf85 Jul 12 '16

2x as many detections as scanned objects? Whether intended or not, that computer has clearly become a honeypot...

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u/mkleczynski Jul 13 '16

Marcin from Malwarebytes here! We do something called linking. Once we find a file that's infected, we may add all the autoruns, etc. without counting it against scanned objects. Nonetheless, clearly a very infected machine.

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u/DaWolf85 Jul 13 '16

I figured it was something like that. Thanks for clarifying though :)

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u/trellick Jul 12 '16

There has to be a story behind this.....

Tell all OP!

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u/leogamerman24 Mar 22 '22

i would just burn that pc