Re: is this evidence of a virus?

2010-04-13 Thread Dr. Who
we have an app that nukes any thing you plug into a usb, i mean 160 gb music library. encrypted and useless. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists

Re: is this evidence of a virus?

2010-04-13 Thread Dana
let me tell you how to fix that if that turns out to be the problem. Attach the drive to a machine where there is no admin, or where you have admin rights (either will work). Go to the properties of the external drive and set permissions to anyone can do anything to it. This may not be what you wa

Re: is this evidence of a virus?

2010-04-13 Thread Dana
well hmm let me ask you this can you get into the rest of the drive? If notare users with different privilege levels set up on the machine it is attached to? Cause, assuming we are talking about an external drive, not just a thumb drive this can be a problem. On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:46

Re: is this evidence of a virus?

2010-04-13 Thread Matthew Smith
I did a full scan and nothing was detected. Maybe it is just the default protection for external drives when they are connected? On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Vivec wrote: > > That is odd. > > external drives CAN be infected by viruses...and that's the behaviour > of AV packages when it hap

Re: is this evidence of a virus?

2010-04-13 Thread Vivec
That is odd. external drives CAN be infected by viruses...and that's the behaviour of AV packages when it happens. As soon as you insert the drive the warning pops up. Was Avira able to clean the drive? On 13 April 2010 09:53, Matthew Smith wrote: > > Yes, USB. > > Avira popped up saying it bl

Re: is this evidence of a virus?

2010-04-13 Thread Matthew Smith
ust plugged in an external hard drive to a laptop. Avira said it > blocked > > autorun.inf. Tried to open the autorun.inf file with notepad just to see > > what is up with it. Access was denied. Not sure if that it avira doing > > that or something else is goi

Re: is this evidence of a virus?

2010-04-12 Thread Dana
er the words pretty intelligent should follow here On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Dana wrote: > maybe... is it usb? Random thoughts: > > Mine autoruns but I am not sure how that happens. An inf file is > normal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INF_file) but um so are most > viruses

Re: is this evidence of a virus?

2010-04-12 Thread Dana
drive to a laptop.  Avira said it blocked > autorun.inf.  Tried to open the autorun.inf file with notepad just to see > what is up with it.  Access was denied.  Not sure if that it avira doing > that or something else is going on. > > Is this evidence of a virus?  Should an external h

RE: is this evidence of a virus?

2010-04-12 Thread LRS Scout
onday, April 12, 2010 9:32 PM To: cf-community Subject: is this evidence of a virus? Just plugged in an external hard drive to a laptop. Avira said it blocked autorun.inf. Tried to open the autorun.inf file with notepad just to see what is up with it. Access was denied. Not sure if that it avira

is this evidence of a virus?

2010-04-12 Thread Matthew Smith
Just plugged in an external hard drive to a laptop. Avira said it blocked autorun.inf. Tried to open the autorun.inf file with notepad just to see what is up with it. Access was denied. Not sure if that it avira doing that or something else is going on. Is this evidence of a virus? Should