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I've got a USB flash drive (that is also a SD card) that seems to have picked up a virus. I only use about three IBM PC clones running 'windows' and only very occasionally at that. Somehow my insertion into a computer running 'windows', must've picked up something, which, ages later was detected the
next time I encountered another.
Of course, it doesn't matter much to me, as it probably doesn't affect OS X or Gentoo linux.
However, it'd be a nice idea if USB flash drives could be made to accommodate a cross-platform updatable automatically runnable antivirus program that scans everything on the way in or out.
Possible ways of doing it:
• incorporate a small cheap ARM or similar with the drive, so that the execution of the antivirus isn't dependent upon a host computer to run a program (the host computer might run an infrequently encountered OS such as Risc OS or Amiga OS or some such lonely effort). This presents updating problems.
• write it in Java, allow it to execute only within that directory. But that doesn't suggest a means of automatically invoking it upon insertion.
• give up.
Linux user at BestBuy
http://xkcd.com/272/
I love this guy. [bleh, Oct 19 2007]
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Wouldn't it make more sense to have this
"gatekeeper" software on the computer, to
preclude viruses from loaded to or from all
USB drives, regardless of their own
capabilities? |
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No. I might conceivably use a different computer next time. |
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Then it's the responibility of the computer's owner. |
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It could invoke itself easily upon the supply of power - lots of things do it. |
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There may be some future in USB mounted software, antivirus or not. |
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(-) Thanks, but I'd rather not have this. Adding automatically executable hoo-hah to storage media is what got us into this mess to begin with. |
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Well, it doesn't really bother me either because it's hardly likely to affect my own computer. I was just feeling a bit of misplaced empathy with people at various places I work at that have to run 'windows'. |
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I put the card into my Nikon D50 to reformat it in the end. |
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I haven't had a virus in years. I was beginning to think they were just bogeymen invented by McAfee et. al. to sell us software. |
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You now have a virus [wagster] !!!!! Look
very closely at the symbol enclosed by
the backets [ ] It's called the White
Space Envelope. Every piece of text on
this whole page is now surrounded by
it, and you can never get rid of it ! |
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I had WSE on my computer, but got rid of it by running a little utility called ShutDown. |
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I have an Ativa brand flash drive with U3 software on it. It's set up to emulate a CD drive, and is supposed to carry programs from computer to computer for me. One of the free programs supplied on it was anti-virus software (which I already had on my computer). |
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I've never taken that flash drive to another computer, and almost formatted all that shite off it. But I have a dozen other flash drives (it's a compulsion) so I left it as it was. |
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It's an anti-virus on a flash drive, technically, I suppose. But it's a pain to use. |
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I had the U3 crap on my drives also but I
formatted it off. I cant stand that shit.
Popping up every time I plug the thing in.
<grunt> <stomp> |
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not only that, but the U3 crap does not
work on Mac. Bastards. |
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Not a virus but it might as well be: |
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Anyone else have the problem of their Mac gradually filling up their flash drive by not actually deleting old information from it but just moving it to a hidden '.trashes' folder? |
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It's a real pain when using a digital camera's memory card with a Mac. |
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Every now and then I have to either tediously invoke showing hidden files on my Mac to delete the unwanted files or pop the flash drive into a PC. |
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Or is it Apple's way of punishing me for not porting photos using i(DontWantToStoreYour)Photo? |
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//Anyone else have the problem of their
Mac gradually filling up their flash drive
by not actually deleting old information
from it but just moving it to a hidden
'.trashes' folder? // |
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You have to empty the trash while the
drive is plugged in. I have noticed this
too. I get into the habit of delete-
empty trash to keep this stuff from
piling up. If you empty the trash with
the drive plugged in it should go away.
Also works with cameras |
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Thanks, that helps a lot. It never occurred to me that the Mac's Trash Can would link to separate drives, but it makes sense now. |
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Seems easier to simply run your own antivirus software to scan your usb drive. More effective, too, because it will remind you to scan your hard disk as well. |
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The thing is, I really don't care about other people getting viruses, and other operating systems viruses won't affect my computer, so really I should just carry on the way I am - freely infecting 'windows' computers wherever I go because one of them gave me a virus, and I was unaware of it in my normal use of my own iBook. |
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[Ian Tindale] = Patient Zero |
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[Ian Tindale] = Zero Patience... |
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antivirus is snake oil. also, use a secure operating system like openbsd. |
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