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Old December 27th 06, 06:30 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Ron Hinds
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Default USB Flash drive "Trojan"

I have a friend who bought a SanDisk 2GB Flash drive about a month ago and
it comes with application software (useless, as far as I can tell) that
installs (or maybe just runs?) automatically when you plug in the drive
without even asking if you want it or not. Trying to delete it from the
flash drive appears to work but then it reappears next time you plug it in.
I just received a Kingston 2GB flash drive for Christmas and it, too has
this obnoxious Trojan. Tried repartitioning using Linux and when I plug it
into a Windows system the damn Trojan is still there! Anyone know of a way
to get rid of this unwanted, useless crap?


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Old December 27th 06, 07:20 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Ron Hinds
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Default USB Flash drive "Trojan"

Disregard - found my answer. It's a U3 "smart" drive - for anyone interested
in uninstalling it go he

http://www.u3.com/uninstall/uninstall.aspx


"Ron Hinds" wrote in message
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I have a friend who bought a SanDisk 2GB Flash drive about a month ago and
it comes with application software (useless, as far as I can tell) that
installs (or maybe just runs?) automatically when you plug in the drive
without even asking if you want it or not. Trying to delete it from the
flash drive appears to work but then it reappears next time you plug it in.
I just received a Kingston 2GB flash drive for Christmas and it, too has
this obnoxious Trojan. Tried repartitioning using Linux and when I plug it
into a Windows system the damn Trojan is still there! Anyone know of a way
to get rid of this unwanted, useless crap?




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Old December 27th 06, 08:30 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Impmon
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Default USB Flash drive "Trojan"

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:30:38 -0800, "Ron Hinds"
wrote:

Tried repartitioning using Linux and when I plug it
into a Windows system the damn Trojan is still there! Anyone know of a way
to get rid of this unwanted, useless crap?


Would help if you disabled auto play feature in XP. This should stop
the obnoxious program from loading in the first place.
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Old December 27th 06, 12:49 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Arno Wagner
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Default USB Flash drive "Trojan"

Previously Ron Hinds wrote:
Disregard - found my answer. It's a U3 "smart" drive - for anyone interested
in uninstalling it go he


http://www.u3.com/uninstall/uninstall.aspx


Urgh! Gruesome! And when you tell them as Reason "I run Linux", they
give you a Windows-App to remove it. Quite braindead....

Anyway, thanks for posting the info here!

Arno


"Ron Hinds" wrote in message
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I have a friend who bought a SanDisk 2GB Flash drive about a month ago and
it comes with application software (useless, as far as I can tell) that
installs (or maybe just runs?) automatically when you plug in the drive
without even asking if you want it or not. Trying to delete it from the
flash drive appears to work but then it reappears next time you plug it in.
I just received a Kingston 2GB flash drive for Christmas and it, too has
this obnoxious Trojan. Tried repartitioning using Linux and when I plug it
into a Windows system the damn Trojan is still there! Anyone know of a way
to get rid of this unwanted, useless crap?




 




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