Last weekend I went to Staples Print Center in Marathahalli – Printo has closed shop and moved out. And when I got home I plugged the USB drive into Vista and AVG Anti Virus did not complain – but I saw a program called Khatra.exe asking for Admin privileges to run.
Then I rebooted into Ubuntu and was horrified to see the files that were there. There were folders and lots of exes. Now I am upset with 2 entities here.
1. Staples Print Center
Printo always scans the flash drives ( even if it used to take time ) and not once they loaded viruses on to my USB drive. Wish Staples learns from their competitor and educates their employees to follow proper process ( I am sure Staples will have it in their employee handbook ).
2. Vista
I did not give administrative privileges to Khatra.exe, still it managed to copy itself in the registry in some 10 places, got itself added to startup , and had the guts to ask again for administrative privileges when I rebooted.
I am shocked that inspite of all the zombie Windows XPs on the net, Microsoft has not learnt a thing – it is still a MG road platform – anyone can come, sit, pitch their tent and start doing business.
I am seriously considering investing in Codeweaver or trying out Virtual Box for Ubuntu – Office is one thing that forces me to reboot to Windows. It has wasted a few hours of my time – imagine the billions of hours people will be losing all over the world because of poor security measures in the OS.
