I just got back from work about an hour and a half ago, and already have been working again. A colleague from work was suffering from serious computer problems (it always reboots as soon as I've logged on, etc.) so I told him to bring his machine to work so I could take it home, and then analyse it and fix what needs to be done. However, there are more fun things than carrying around a 17 inch CRT monitor at 06h30 in the morning :)
Dropped off the car at the service point and I'll be picking it up later today - since I need it again tonight - and I'm off to bed while I let Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D do a first assessement of the damage on the colleague's machine. Ad-Aware finished and found 207 suspicious objects, of which 51 were registry keys, there were 10 mal/spyware related directories on the box, and I don't even recall what else. I've saved a log file though, for later enjoyment.
Spybot S&D just completed it's first run (with an outdated set of detection rules for the time being) and identified an additional 40 problems. I'll have too see if I can hook it up to the internet later on, to retrieve updates for a Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D, as well as very critical windows patches. As far as I could tell, this machine has windows XP on it with exactly 1 applied hotfix, a permanent DLS connection, no firewall and no anti-virus. No wonder it reboots :p
First off to bed now... I need some sleeeeeep!
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