Personal computing discussed
ronch wrote:Hey guys, need some help here. My wife came home today, handing me her USB flash drive saying it's been infected by some Trojan. First thing I did, of course, is to scan it but Avast Free shows nothing although I could see the files are still in there according to Avast, as it displays the names of the files it's scanning. Upon opening it, I see her files are gone and the only thing visible (even after enabling 'Show hidden files and folders' in Windows) is one file, a link file that's named "NANO PRO 4GB" that points to rundll32.exe in the Windows folder. Obviously malicious and who knows what it'll do. I copied rundll32.exe from the Windows folder to D:\ and edited the link file to point to THAT copy (dunno if that helps though). She needs her files badly and I'm not sure how to recover them. And yes, her last backup was in October. Good grief. I'm proceeding with caution here as any USB recovery app can ruin her stuff.
ronch wrote:Fixed it, folks. Got her files back. She's a lawyer so she's doomed if she can't get those files back. After some skillful Google-Fu I went to the command prompt and typed
attrib -h -r -s /s /d f:\*. *
and a folder came up in Explorer with her files tucked inside.
steelcity_ballin wrote:Thumb drives are not very secure ...
steelcity_ballin wrote:All that said, I'd always insist that any "must have" data be made into a proper backup with an off-line copy stored in a fire-proof safe. Could automate that too, except the physical action of putting it into the safe
ronch wrote:She's a lawyer so she's doomed if she can't get those files back.
Scorpiuscat wrote:I recently saw a news story about infected USB drives being left around college campuses and something like 2/3rds of people who find them plug them in without much hesitation.
I got to admit, if I found a USB drive, it would be very tempting to see what is on it, but I like to think that I have enough advanced skills to handle anything bad that happens.
Scorpiuscat wrote:I recently saw a news story about infected USB drives being left around college campuses and something like 2/3rds of people who find them plug them in without much hesitation.
Scorpiuscat wrote:I got to admit, if I found a USB drive, it would be very tempting to see what is on it, but I like to think that I have enough advanced skills to handle anything bad that happens.
WalterW wrote:Brilliant read and some good information, thanks for sharing
Flying Fox wrote:WalterW wrote:Brilliant read and some good information, thanks for sharing
Did you check the date of the thread? You are necroing quite an old thread.