I had a virus on my USB stick that I may have mentioned in the annoy thread. Formatting the USB stick doesn’t seem to have killed it as I plugged it into my PC here and Avast detected it. Run a full scan and it killed it before it installed (I didn’t use the autorun menu so it didn’t install that way as it appears to install itself that way).
How can I get rid of this nasty if even a reformat wont kill it?
Also I cant find it on my home PC, work PC or any PC’s it’s used off the top of my head recently.
Is it best to bin the drive and get another?
You could also try a Disk Editor. If you can find one that is. If so just change one sector will handle the issue. Try something like this http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
A tool I like is dban which will overwrite all user accessible parts of a drive (MBR, partition tables, partitions and their contents, and unpartitioned space). Make sure you boot from that not the drive. If it remains after a good wipe, then I’d suspect a false positive.
It’s not a false positive. Or if it is, it’s a damn clever one as I found the folder in Linux and could browse through it hence how I found the virus name.
Probably about tuime I got a new one so it’s headed in the direction of the recycling.
[QUOTE=drezha;450952]It’s not a false positive. Or if it is, it’s a damn clever one as I found the folder in Linux and could browse through it hence how I found the virus name.
Probably about tuime I got a new one so it’s headed in the direction of the recycling.[/QUOTE]
@Vortex - look like I might need it - the Sandisk cruzer I just put into my PC is infected as well
And it appears it might be because my work machine is infected though I cant see the registry keys and McAfee hasn’t picked anything up. I gather this because typing in C:
ikalod doesn’t give an error message that the folder cant be found and just displays an empty browser window. Don’t know how it got on the machine either.
[QUOTE=drezha;451009]@Vortex - look like I might need it - the Sandisk cruzer I just put into my PC is infected as well
And it appears it might be because my work machine is infected though I cant see the registry keys and McAfee hasn’t picked anything up. I gather this because typing in C:
ikalod doesn’t give an error message that the folder cant be found and just displays an empty browser window. Don’t know how it got on the machine either. :([/QUOTE]
Don’t like Mcafee. Misses too many nasties and is bloaty…
Me likes Wheel guns for the punch and no possibility of Jamming.
Like dirty Harry says: “I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”
