Yeah had something similar once when fixing someones laptop, lovely lady, we will call her Sally, married to an ex Welsh rugby star, lets call him Terry, their laptop had a variety of nasties on it that required hours and hours to fix, it was like the virus archive at Kaperski, would have been quicker doing a wipe and reload, but she assured me her documents were important and needed to be preserved.
Off I went, scan, clean, reboot, regedit, scan, clean, reboot, regedit, etc, this went on for 2 days, but because she was such a nice lady I wanted to give her what she wanted rather than take the easy route.
Eventually I got most of the crap out and it was down to dealing with the nested zip archive virus problems, in those days antivirus software wouldn't scan archive within archive within etc past a certain point, so it was time to do it the hard way and go manual.
Sally's documents folder was pretty clear, there was one issue in her "prayer diary" folder, and another in her "charity work" folder, but nothing serious, so it was time to deal with Terry's folder...
Oh dear... seemed Terry had a bit of a thing for Filipino ladyboys, full on boobs and balls stuff, and the source of their issues was down to him using some sort of Russian LimeWire like software to source material of his "particular" tastes.
Many hours later, more than a few videos/photos having to be burned from the system, and the removal of this dodgy Russian porn downloader, I thoroughly bleached my hands, took my £10 from the nice Sally with a big crucifix around her neck, handed the laptop back and never watched rugby again.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
