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 Dec 5 2008, 06:07 AM
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 Toasty Warm  Group: Elite Posts: 1,343 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Johannesburg, South Africa Member No.: 1,499 Sex: Female  |
So, I just figured out I have a Trojan on my flash disk. Is there any way to get rid of it? Or will I have to just throw the flash disk away? 
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Dec 5 2008, 06:29 AM
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 flamesuit: engage!  Group: Administration Posts: 3,352 Joined: 30-January 04 From: The Boneyard Member No.: 2,543 Sex: Male |
Format
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Dec 5 2008, 06:30 AM
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Member  Group: Junior Posts: 4 Joined: 1-December 08 Member No.: 14,350 Sex: Male |
QUOTE(toasted @ Dec 5 2008, 09:07 AM)  So, I just figured out I have a Trojan on my flash disk. Is there any way to get rid of it? Or will I have to just throw the flash disk away? scan it with your anti-virus software like you do your hard drive |
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Dec 5 2008, 08:36 AM
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Toasty Warm Group: Elite Posts: 1,343 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Johannesburg, South Africa Member No.: 1,499 Sex: Female |
How do I format?
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Dec 6 2008, 12:02 AM
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 Lilium Inter Spinas Group: Administration Posts: 689 Joined: 24-June 02 From: Johannesburg, ZA Member No.: 383 Sex: Male |
Just plug it in; press the windows key and "e" (explorer) and right click on it then say format.
But; most likely its intention is to spread onto your computer - so beware.. if its still on your machine it will just keep going back (as thats obviously how it gets onto flash drives) AV software is the best - free online one google "trend housecall" -------------------- |
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Dec 6 2008, 07:46 AM
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Toasty Warm Group: Elite Posts: 1,343 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Johannesburg, South Africa Member No.: 1,499 Sex: Female |
Cool, thanks alot.
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Dec 6 2008, 08:53 AM
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 Aces full of Kings Group: Administration Posts: 5,815 Joined: 4-June 02 From: Johannesburg South Africa Member No.: 1 Sex: Male |
ask your brother to format it for you
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Dec 6 2008, 12:16 PM
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Toasty Warm Group: Elite Posts: 1,343 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Johannesburg, South Africa Member No.: 1,499 Sex: Female |
I can't - he'll shout at me because that will solve the mystery as to how my parents PC became riddled with Trojans.
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Dec 6 2008, 12:51 PM
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Aces full of Kings Group: Administration Posts: 5,815 Joined: 4-June 02 From: Johannesburg South Africa Member No.: 1 Sex: Male |
loooooooooooooooooooool
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Dec 6 2008, 03:54 PM
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 Gave my left testicles to research in stem cell tech :(  Group: V9 Mod Posts: 9,630 Joined: 5-August 03 From: Johannesburg Member No.: 1,474 Sex: Male |
lmfao!
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Dec 17 2008, 03:06 PM
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Member Group: Junior Posts: 1 Joined: 15-December 02 Member No.: 796 Sex: Male |
Actually you do not need to format the usb disk. There are software out there to specifically scan your usb disk when it is inserted into the usb port. One such software that I use is called "USB Disk Security", and it is doing an excellent job at keeping nasties at bay. Using the autorun of the usb disk, most viruses are able to spread to PC's and this software disables the autorun feature and scans everytime the usb disk gets plugged into the usb port.
Hope that's helpfull. Download link: USB Disk Security |
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Dec 26 2008, 01:29 AM
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 Full Member Group: Elite Posts: 904 Joined: 21-December 02 From: Durban, KZN Member No.: 807 Sex: Male |
i use flash_disinfector - its been very useful so far
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Dec 29 2008, 01:32 AM
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 Scientology is going to be the real-life Brotherhood of Nod, wit Group: Elite Posts: 2,161 Joined: 13-August 04 From: Randburg - Jhb Member No.: 3,528 Sex: Male |
Since there are so many flash-drive knowledgeable people here, I have a riddle for you.
We all got a flashdrive from our company, but when you insert it, it opens up a webpage with some article about our products... nice. It seems that when you insert it, it mounts a CD-Rom drive which autoruns the link. I have deleted all the files on the flashdrive, and still it happens, so its most likely in the firmware. Any idea how to kill this "virus"? |
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Mar 19 2009, 06:13 AM
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 Senior Member  Group: Senior Posts: 194 Joined: 30-May 04 Member No.: 3,029 |
How sure are you that you deleted hidden files?
You can stick it into a clean PC before booting up (this nullifies autorun when the volume is mounted) and do a cleanup. |
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Mar 19 2009, 07:07 AM
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Gave my left testicles to research in stem cell tech :( Group: V9 Mod Posts: 9,630 Joined: 5-August 03 From: Johannesburg Member No.: 1,474 Sex: Male |
QUOTE Since there are so many flash-drive knowledgeable people here, I have a riddle for you. that's generally built into the Autorun.ini script... hence why there's so many virus and worms piggybacking on this method to infect pc's....We all got a flashdrive from our company, but when you insert it, it opens up a webpage with some article about our products... nice. It seems that when you insert it, it mounts a CD-Rom drive which autoruns the link. I have deleted all the files on the flashdrive, and still it happens, so its most likely in the firmware. Any idea how to kill this "virus"? |
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Mar 19 2009, 10:38 PM
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Regular Member Group: Junior Posts: 17 Joined: 18-May 08 Member No.: 12,118 Sex: Male |
ninja pendisk, NINJA PENDISK!!
Its an awesome little app that will deletes the autorun file and replaces it with a safe version, hence stopping any viruses or trojans that would spread once the flash is plugged in -------------------- |
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Mar 20 2009, 03:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Senior Posts: 194 Joined: 30-May 04 Member No.: 3,029 |
I like to format my flash drives using NTFS (you have to disable "Optimize for fast removal" (iirc) in your sys properties though), then create a dummy autorun.ini, and remove permissions for it. That very effectively "innoculates" the flash drive from becoming a virus delivery vehicle when you stick in into a foreign PC. It could still get infected, but it won't be able to infect any other PC you stick it in after.
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