There's your problem, sir

[PliotronX]

So I'm working on a PC that is supposedly "infected" because it is sluggish. Anyway after asking to set up a remote session, a couple minutes of silence and I ask if they can get to the website and he says sorry it's still booting up Okay, remoting in it seems very slow. Discover it has a decent i3 proc and 4GB of RAM (double ). Run a Malwarebytes scan (quick scan took as long as a full scan) and comes up clean. So I look at the installed programs because there are a few toolbars in IE and notice that not one, not two, not three, but four AV are present on this system. It takes literally 40 minutes to uninstall Avast and another 30 for Webroot SecureAnywhere and Trend Micro won't even uninstall so I force removal with Geek Uninstaller.

Sure the system was clean of virii but it was infected all right.. with AV. Moral is, sometimes the cure is worse than the disease

 

[mechBgon]

Haha, yikes! I can only wonder what would happen if you showed that system the EICAR test virus. Maybe it would deadlock.

 

[John Connor]

Hahahaha!

 

[SecurityTheatre]

It's the electronic hypocondriac.

This is the same person who shows up at the doctor convinced they have hepatitis because of their soft stool and cramps.

Turns out they've just been taking large doses of black-market antibiotics due to fears about an imagined staph infection and have wrecked their digestive system.

Yes, this is a real story I heard from a doctor.....