USB Thumb Drive Virus

[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.

 

[mechBgon]

I'd be curious to know whether the Vista system in question had its UAC enabled or not. Do you happen to know?

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
I'd be curious to know whether the Vista system in question had its UAC enabled or not. Do you happen to know?

It did.

 

[Griffinhart]

never mind. wrong thread hehe. sorry.

 

[Schadenfroh]

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?

 

[VirtualLarry]

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.

 

[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.

What was the name of the Virus? Curious that your anti-spyware is catching it but not your antivirus.

 

[Arkaign]

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.

What was the name of the Virus? Curious that your anti-spyware is catching it but not your antivirus.

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