I really don't want a virus related mail in LUG. ;)
I can even tolerate Tamil mails. ;)
Just kidding.
Why make a fuss of it at all?
I don't see a problem.
Think and you will see why...
-Girish
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Ashish Verma <ilu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had attached my pen-drive to a windows system, which led to loading of a
> virus that creates a exe file in every folder that you open. Now to get rid
> of that, I tried deleting the virus from my fedora system, however it just
> won't go, and moreover it changes the access mode of the pen-drive to read
> only on every delete attempt. I had tried this before and it worked, but
> this time it is something different. Maybe the issue is specific to
> pen-drives, because last time I tried this on a portable hard disk with
> ntfs.
>
> I have tried overwriting the exe files using the dd command (find -name *\
> .exe ./ -exec dd -if=/dev/zero or some text file of={} bs=512 count=some
> count enough to override the file size \;) to get rid of whatever code is in
> the virus.
>
> After running the above command, ls -l does shows the new attributes of the
> file in terms of size and modified date etc, however again when I delete the
> file, the original attributes are restored.
>
> Then I tried formatting it, however after a certain point the format fails,
> because again the access mode changes to read only mode.
>
> I then tried overwriting the whole disk with the dd -if=/dev/zero, but that
> fails too after certain point for the same reason.
>
> Now the pen-drive is in a state that even when I attach it to windows, it is
> accessed in read-only mode and am unable to do anything except for read the
> data from it.
>
> I will send in more details from the logs once I get back to my system.
> Until then, if anyone has any pointers, please let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Ashish
>
> p.s the AVG anti-virus also was not able to delete that virus.
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