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 have faced similar situation in the past and what has worked for me is 1. Format the pen drive using (c)fdisk 2. Create the partition again 3. Create the file system using mkfs.vfat _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
