Hello,
I am a bit out of date on many things as most of my computer usage is unshared, non-surfing, research usage.
While helping put something on a friends computer with my 62 MB USB PEN DISK, I ended up receiving the virus/malware/trojan onto my computer through my USB storage device.
This led me to avast! av, and I now have installed onto my 2002 sony XP laptop, and my 2006 vista gateway (both with new formatted restores).
In the process avast continually detected autorun as a virus (I don’t remember if it actually said worm, trojan, or something else), even though I selected the delete option various times.
I am assuming that the pen detects that autorun has been erased, and rewrites it onto the pendisk (in effect making it undeletable). Is this assumption correct?
Or does avast actually fail to delete autorun from the pen disk?
There was also a checkbox given by avast something about if necessary disabling the file on startup. I left the checkbox checked. This happened on both computers.
I am now left with a non-functioning pen drive. Everytime I stick it into the vista or xp computer, it detectes it now as a “removable disk” device (versus previously showing it as “pen disk” in “my computer”, and when I try to open it to get the files, it gives a pop up window stating that it must be formated first and asks if I want to format it.
My assumption was that this “format” question/issue is totally due to avast. So, I put it into my old desktop ME computer, and I don’t get the format popup. The usb storage device has the files on it and I can add/delete more files using the ME computer.
So, sticking it back into the xp and vista computers, they both refuse to recognize the usb pen disk as being formatted and having files.
So, I used the xp computer to format it, but the problem simply repeats. Then the vista computer does the same (tried to format it in fat and ntfs).
This has to be due to the checkbox left checked in avast when avast asked if I want to delete the file (since the ME computer is the only computer that doesn’t have av, and is the only computer that the device remained functionable).
I’ve searched the forum and found many usb posts, but nothing to this exact issue.
Any help please?