Kaspersky saves the day!

I was working this morning when Paul gave me a call and ask me whether I can have a look of a student’s laptop that’s loaded with Chinese versions of XP. I went to his office and discovered that the laptop was having a Chinese version XP Pro. Paul told me there were viruses and trojans on the laptop, and for some reason, some functions like Windows Firewall just won’t start anymore. (we have checked the services related to Firewall). The laptop has been scanned with Sophos before, but since no anti-virus software can guarantee 100% detection rate, I bought the laptop with me and scanned it with Kaspersky to see whether I can find any more “bad guys” on the machine. The results turned out to be very interesting:

Read Full Post »