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USB Thumb Drive Virus

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wetcat007

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I've came across a virus the other day that will infect whatever computer a USB thumb drive is plugged into even with auto play disabled, effected a updated Vista machine, but was caught by webroot spysweeper.

Anyone know of any information on the windows exploit that allows something to be executed simply by plugging a USB drive in?

It wasn't on one of my computers, and unfortunately I don't remember the name of the virus.
 
I'd be curious to know whether the Vista system in question had its UAC enabled or not. Do you happen to know?
 
Interesting, I wish my new sandisk had the readonly switch that my old memorex had. Does it infect the thumb drive if you are using it in safe mode command prompt only?
 
Yes. I'm surprised that flash drives don't come with read-only switches by default. After all, all removable-media before them (floppies) did.
 
Originally posted by: wetcat007
I've came across a virus the other day that will infect whatever computer a USB thumb drive is plugged into even with auto play disabled, effected a updated Vista machine, but was caught by webroot spysweeper.

Anyone know of any information on the windows exploit that allows something to be executed simply by plugging a USB drive in?

It wasn't on one of my computers, and unfortunately I don't remember the name of the virus.
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What was the name of the Virus? Curious that your anti-spyware is catching it but not your antivirus.
 
Originally posted by: Smilin
Originally posted by: wetcat007
I've came across a virus the other day that will infect whatever computer a USB thumb drive is plugged into even with auto play disabled, effected a updated Vista machine, but was caught by webroot spysweeper.

Anyone know of any information on the windows exploit that allows something to be executed simply by plugging a USB drive in?

It wasn't on one of my computers, and unfortunately I don't remember the name of the virus.
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What was the name of the Virus? Curious that your anti-spyware is catching it but not your antivirus.
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Could be a false positive. Or a defective AV suite. I've come to the conclusion that stuff like NOD/Kaspersky/Panda are rock-solid, and Norton/McAfee are nigh useless.

FWIW : add me to the curious list 🙂
 
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