Thread: USB thunmdrive infection

Originally Posted by aging one

But my device is now clean. Done in 100% Thai style. Lets see how long it lasts. It should be okay now because every lecturer has their own lap top to program and use as they see fit.

One suggestion that may be handy for the future is use SD cards to pass data on.
The lock stops a virus writing to the things. I got infected because I was daft enough to ignore my own rule.

Can't remember but one of the programs Avast or AVG treats all auto runs as virus...

Cool in that it dumps all that crap.

E. G.

Originally Posted by Nawty

See...it can be done. I hate these lazy cnuts that just want to wipe everything and lose all the stuff you have on it because they are to fucking lazy to do it properly. Anyway, I shall see what i can find on google, seeing as nobody here is smart enough to tell this poor dumb windows user how to do it.

I will explain in more detail tomorrow. But the key in this case is two clean computers to clean the device on. Holy shit the Thais do things bass ackward, but strangely enough half the time it works and is an easy fix.

Originally Posted by slackula

If the world moved on from the laughable Windows model of Registries and dynamically modifiable libraries by any user then we would all be better off. So would the online banking industry and anybody else who actually has to rely on a computer in the year 2010..

Actually, anyone could secure a Windows machine relatively easily, just that most people are too dumb to think - including our pundit friends in the bitbucket, on this thread.

All you'd really need to do is:

- disable the bloody VBS by default.
- install the default user as a 'regular' user, instead of making every user an admin user by default, as Windows is so prone of doing.

The fact that Microsoft hasn't managed to figure that out in the past decade is telling - not just of the users getting 0wned by that POS Windows OS, but the company supplying it to them and being too bloody dumb to fix it.

Fortunately, in the Mac field, I don't waste my time and my users' time with that sort of crap, but instead can concentrate on creative and productive projects - well, unless PC centric IT departments screw it up for everyone, as they so often do.

I really sometimes feel that the Windows/PC demographic exclusively attracts lazy retards too dumb and lazy to tie their own shoe laces.

Sorry, but I digress.... or do I...?

Originally Posted by slackula

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Actually, anyone could secure a Windows machine relatively easily,

True that, you can unplug the ethernet cable, rip out the wifi card and power supply and then throw it into a closet.

Usually, along with the owner and user - Presto, no more drunk Aussies/Ozzies clamoring for attention, and bringing attention to their stupidity.

Originally Posted by slackula

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Not me. If the bloody stuff worked perfectly, I'd be out of a job.

If you make a living from supporting Windows stuff then you should have said so when you started on your anti-Mac tirades imho.

People come into a forum looking for advice and suggestions, if you are going to blindly promote Windows over anything else because you personally make money out of it then you should have said so at the outset. Very poor form.

Eh? I offered him sensible advice on how to solve his (Windows) problem. That doesn't mean I am not aware of the security holes in Windows.

I also support Linux and AIX, and there's plenty of work keeping those secure as well.

What I don't do is run around blowing smoke out of my arse saying it's the best thing since sliced bread.

What I do see is pompous twats chunring out the old mantra of "if you had a Mac or an iPad you'd *never* have this problem".

Of course you wouldn't. You'd just have loads of others.

As long as humans are writing software, there will be flaws.

Originally Posted by slackula

True that, you can unplug the ethernet cable, rip out the wifi card and power supply and then throw it into a closet. Presto: secure Windows computer

In reality for most of us " that is a fact jack " and greened.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

pompous twats

Daffney is not a pompous twat....he is though a fat bald geek sex tourist that knows everything about everything.....there is questions on his sexuality also since taking a gay boy into a friends bar.

Originally Posted by Nawty

Anyway, I shall see what i can find on google, seeing as nobody here is smart enough to tell this poor dumb windows user how to do it.

There are no easy fixes to repairing a compromised computer. You might be able to get the anti-virus to stop bleeping but you will still have no real idea if the machine is secure and clean or not and without wiping it totally you will never know what information it is serving up to nefarious parties.

The first thing to do is to take it offline, especially if you have any sort of personal information stored on it.

I wrote a lengthy reply before about dealing with compromised Windows computers.

https://teakdoor.com/computer-news/68...ml#post1384572 (PC down : keeps restarting ...)


It is boring and tedious, but basically once you have been infected then until you do a complete re-install your private info may always be at risk.

It is boring and tedious, but basically once you have been infected then until you do a complete re-install your private info may always be at risk.

And in fact I always recommend going from the top and wiping in these situations - if your practices led you to being infected in the first place, it's probably the safest bet.

But I want to try to save some information that is on my usb......I wrote my memoirs on it....22,000 words.

The USB drive is just a repository.

Unless the files on it are executable (or exploitable), you should be able to open them on another computer.

22,000 words. You must have killed a few brain cells.

......shhh

Dunno what that means. But cannot open the thumbdrive now....its locked, will not allow entry....so how can i open it on another puter.....and the bug is still in there anyway.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

22,000 words. You must have killed a few brain cells

....and only half of them mispelt.

Originally Posted by aging one

Originally Posted by slackula

True that, you can unplug the ethernet cable, rip out the wifi card and power supply and then throw it into a closet. Presto: secure Windows computer

In reality for most of us " that is a fact jack " and greened.

ROTFLOL!

Originally Posted by slackula

There are no easy fixes to repairing a compromised computer. You might be able to get the anti-virus to stop bleeping ...

Hmmm...thanks i think.

But the infected usb i can reformat and use again right ? Dont really have to put it up my arse right ?

^ Yeah, guys, you're right. Windows machines are sooooooo much better than Macs, judging by how easy it is for all of you to deal with just taking a thumb drive to a show.

Seriously, this thread is like a Mac commercial.

MacDonalds suck also.....

Originally Posted by Nawty

MacDonalds suck also.....

The Campbells have always thought so.

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Windows machines are sooooooo much better than Macs

only because iTards have not had USB ports on their leased hardware cause steve cannot make money from them

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Windows machines are sooooooo much better than Macs

only because iTards have not had USB ports on their leased hardware cause steve cannot make money from them

It's always good for some laughs to see incorrect garbage spouted by some folks with absolutely zero clue what they are talking about. No USB ports on Macs? Damn, you're funny.