Well, not literally ten thousand, really only two. But first, what am I talking about? Well it all starts with the fact that nearly everything these days is manufactured in China, and everything is pirated in China for sure, from Motorola Bluetooth Headsets to a Rolex.

Where am I going with this? Well you see, being like the average consumer I’m a sucker for low prices, and saw on eBay a Sandisk 1GB MiniSD Card for a reasonable price. So I purchased it and it was shipped from the special administrative region of Hong Kong. When I got it, I didn’t bother checking what lied beneath hidden within the MiniSD.

Now, my PC is pretty secure from threats on the Internet but somehow I got two nasty little Trojans, where did these come from?! I pondered, I turned off XP’s Hidden Files and Folders and OS Files and started my manual manhunt, and even though I managed to get rid of the files, I had no clues where they originated from until I decided to do an Avast Scan on all removable devices, it alerted me to the miniSD with the two exact files with a 2006 Creation date (What the? My OS has only been running since Feb ‘07!), I tried to delete the two hidden little files on the miniSD and it denied me the satisfaction of cleansing its impurity.

I do find it interesting that a miniSD, probably a cheap knockoff, came with two Backdoor Trojans, the infamous wscft.exe and EXPLORER.exe (Obviously trying to pass off as the shell.) Either-way, it’s made me more alert when dealing with Computer Electronics coming from the region and let it be a lesson to others, Buyer Beware they may try to gain access to your PC.