On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
