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 want from a security point of view -- not sure if this is your machine or work's machine, or what -- but if it solves your issue you will know what problem you are working on.
Otherwise, yeah. If the file is infected Avira should either be able to clean it, or tell you that it can't. However some of these latter-day trojans masquerade very effectively so I don't want to say so as an unqualified statement. You might want to run Hijack This. Allow me to add the requisite warning that goes with any recommendation of Hijack This though, without thinking that I think you are stupid. Here it is: Hijack This will flag a slew of settings it considers non-standard but which are in fact just fine and may well have been set on purpose by you or your IT department, including game mods, google and yahoo toolbars, nvidia video drivers, hewlett-packard proprietary setup files and who knows what else. Use caution. On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > well hmm let me ask you this.... can you get into the rest of the > drive? If not....are 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 AM, Matthew Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > Yes, USB. >>> > >>> > Avira popped up saying it blocked the running of the file. Then, I think >>> it >>> > was windows blocking me, but I was thinking Avira blocked the file and >>> > windows couldn't open it >>> >>> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:315806 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
