Thumbs up for Kaspersky anti-virus and their team
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:44 am
For past few months, there is that trojan/virus been circuling around that first spams your messengers (skype and others) with link + attachment and anyone already infected, after a while it hijacks whole windows and shows you screen with warning/notice that you have violated law and have to pay to get your pc "unlocked" again.
or sometimes it just shows white screen and nothing else. I had to fix 2 laptops with this issue and only solution i could find was to re-install whole windows, because none of the anti-viruses detected it.
so today i got a message from friend in skype, sending that "omg you look crazy on this pic, check this out blabla.com/linkhere + attached virus/trojan file"
i instantly knew it wasn't her sending this, so i accepted the file and scanned for viruses, nothing.
Then i sent it to Kaspersky as undetected virus. 5 hours later and Kaspersky was able to detect it!
very fast team, never seen such speed before. well i updated 5 hours later, but maybe they updated even faster. my AV is set to update every 24h (im using zonealarm and it uses kaspersky database).
or sometimes it just shows white screen and nothing else. I had to fix 2 laptops with this issue and only solution i could find was to re-install whole windows, because none of the anti-viruses detected it.
so today i got a message from friend in skype, sending that "omg you look crazy on this pic, check this out blabla.com/linkhere + attached virus/trojan file"
i instantly knew it wasn't her sending this, so i accepted the file and scanned for viruses, nothing.
Then i sent it to Kaspersky as undetected virus. 5 hours later and Kaspersky was able to detect it!
very fast team, never seen such speed before. well i updated 5 hours later, but maybe they updated even faster. my AV is set to update every 24h (im using zonealarm and it uses kaspersky database).