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Linux. It used social engineering to trick normal people in to installing it and then the fun starts. It turns their PCs in to unreliable, buggy systems which require hours of effort to get them to perform basic tasks such as getting their hardware to run properly or perform simple software installs. Worst still, it effects their ownsers turning them from average people who didn't know much about Windows or Unix in to social outcats who bore everyone riggid with conversations of what kernel they are running or how Linux will "beat" Windows and defeat Unix without actually knowing anything about either of the three OSes.

The effects are even more disasterous when it infects corporate IT managers and CTOs.

*shudder*

SpySheriff and SpyFalcon are both pretty bad, but they aren't the worst that I have seen.

The worst is Qoologic.  This piece of shit will randomly rename it's dll's and exe's to 8 character strings to avoid detection.  If any little part of the damn thing is left, it will download what ever it needs to have to continue to run it's self.  It will also download and install things like SpySheriff and other malware crap.  Format and reinstall is far easier, but that wasn't an option.  4 days of registry editting, removal of crap, scan apon scan apon scan, cleaning tools installed then uninstalled.

If you guys ever need help, don't ask me.  Go here MajorGeeks.  These guys are great, just remember to keep a civil tounge in your head and treat them with respect, they are helping you out.

smitfraud and issearch are fucking bastards