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Old July 21st, 2010, 06:13 PM
DDRmaster554 DDRmaster554 is offline
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infected flash drive or computer hard drive?

So my coworkers are having a fight about a possible virus or something that has gotten into people's flash drives and whenever they plug it into a computer, in My Computer, the flash drive shows up as a removable media, but the icon is a folder that does not open when double clicked on and it contains two Autoplay options, both of which do nothing when selected. It works fine on a Mac machine, and when we bring up the files in the flash drive there is an autorun.exe that when deleted, works fine on the Windows machine, but when brought over to another Windows machine, it happens again. The anti-virus software we have does not detect anything, but IMO, it's a piece of crap software. Anyways, does anyone know what is causing this or if the source is either in the flash drive or the computer hard drive?
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Old July 22nd, 2010, 01:56 PM
pcs365_13 pcs365_13 is offline
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Hi DDRmaster554,

autorun.exe is a file information to activate the virus within the flash drive or in both the computer.

you can download the malarebytes here to scan and remove the virus completely from your flash drive.

Regarding, your computer is infected or not infected please post the forum under malarebytes security and follow there instruction for further guidence.

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