[Ilugc] virus in usb
- From: knura9@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Mon Jul 26 10:02:40 2010
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sunday, July 25, 2010 03:25:17 pm Arun Khan wrote:
I have a 128MB USB stick with a hardware write protect - that is the
only way I would be sure the viruses cannot write on to my device (I
have tested it).
btw, do you remember that virus we had in Kolhapur which would copy the
current directory contents into the usb and add an exe file extension to all
the files?
Yes, absolutely. It also wrote an autorun.inf file which would copy
the files on to a folder on my Linux desktop; thanks to Nautilus's
default settings on Ubuntu at that time. Fortunately no harm done
but it really spooked me and ever since then I am extra careful with
USB sticks that have been attached to "promiscuous" desktops.
I have not encountered similar incident yet but I tell my sister to
zap her pen drive after she has taken it to local print services.
She is a lawyer and at times needs to make urgent copies of legal
docs. Invariably they get infected.
-- Arun Khan
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