If you are currently using Chinese download accelerator and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software Xunlei (or Thunder), be careful as it might drop you a trojan/trojans when its ads pop up.

Chinese download accelerator and peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software Xunlei.

I previously had Xunlei installed on my laptop as I feel it is one of the best P2P file sharing softwares out there. But two days ago my laptop was infected with the psw.onlinegame trojan following a sudden appearance of the Xunlei pop-up ad.

The trojan eventually dropped various .exe and .dll files with random names mainly into my C:\Windows and C:\Windows\System32 folders (I had my Kaspersky turned off and that explains why the the psw.onlinegame trojan was injected into my system).

I used various anti-spyware and anti-virus programmes such as Kaspersky, Spyware Terminator and Ad-Aware SE Personal to clear the trojan (and many .exe/.dll files) but every time they were cleared and the windows restarted, my system was still re-infected with the same trojan.

Ad-Aware SE Personal always detected the psw.onlinegame trojan in two system paths, but after I repetitively removed the trojan and re-scaned my system, the same trojan in the same two paths still existed. The stupid seeds can’t be removed.

I searched the net and stumbled upon a site claiming the effectiveness of Anti-Rogue Sweep in removing the said trojan. I gave it a try and viola, the trojan was successfully (and permanently) removed from my system!

But please be extra careful as Anti-Rogue Sweep also removed my system file called ‘ntsvc.ocx’ from my C:\Windows\System32 folder! I had to download the .ocx file from the net to replace the deleted one. So be extra careful!

The left speaker of my NEC E6200 had some minor diaphragm defect nine moths after they fixed a row of dead pixel on my screen.

I called up NEC again to request for their on-site service because my laptop is still under warranty. The very next day, the immediately had it fixed. This is how efficient NEC is, which is why I have intended to to extend its warranty. ;)

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This is how my laptop logon looks like. Damn sophisticated. I fucking love it.

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And my desktop. It has got a nice Vista-Mac feel to it! Don’t be jealous hor!

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