I actually had a bit of a laugh about this a few months ago. A client came to me because of very similar with his work computer. I found 81 dialers on his machine! (not to mention all the odd links & continual popups)
Anyway, I cleaned his comp up, and advised him he probably got these from porn sites (he had a lot of porn history & spyware). He swore that no way did he ever visit porn sites & I had a giggle as he drove away... "yeah, right!"
Not even a month later he was back again. "Can I check it again". There they were again, though he was down to about 20 this time. Not bad for 4 weeks I thought! And there it was again, a history full of porn sites. Still again, the same excuse "no, I dont visit porn sites"... again I laughed.
Now I wasnt laughing because he visited porn sites, but more because he kept denying it ("I dont know where they came from!"). So this time he had the net nanny put on, content advisory on his browser on high, firewall on high,etc it would have rivalled Alcatraz ;-)
Within 24 hours, a phone call... "I'm having problems getting some webpages". I ask him for the url telling him that I will check to see if there is problems with the site. He tells me that he has turned the computer off & cant remember it, but he will let me know next time it happens. Again I have a giggle :-)
A couple of months later he wants some software installed, and at the same time I checked to make sure his machine was running good. wow.... no dialers! No sex sites! And he thanked me for how good his computer had been running.
Now I wait for him to bring his home computer in for the same problems. I've often toyed with the idea of doing the same with that if he does ... but then I think "hell, let the guy have some fun at home! I'll be bound to make some money in the near future" ;-)
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