Interesting I thought, maybe a standard virus scan, so I took a closer look:
They are running a Downadup (otherwise known as Confiker) removal tool, I watched for a little bit longer and noticed that someone was running pcAnywhere, and there was a real human running this remotely. They rebooted after the scan and I noticed that they were running Windows 2000.
So here is what I see wrong with this:
- They are running Windows 2000 (not embedded Windows, but full Windows)
- They obviously have had infections because they are not scanning, but running a removal tool
- The machines can be remotely accessed via a remote control software
- These machines have personal information in them and in particular: they have a credit card reader with PIN pad.
This means that some of these machines have been rooted by a trojan horse and Windows 2000 can't be patched because it is not supported by Microsoft.
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