Hi, I am trying to build some form of program that will keep my jumpdrive secure. I know there are programs I can add to my drive that will do this for me, however I find it fun to do it myself and it isn't like the security is much of a deal as actually doing this. What I have right now is a autorun.inf. It is very simple and states [Autorun] Open = G:\autonrun.exe Autorun.exe is a batch file I converted. It is also rather simple and says: @echo off cls start shutdown -r So right now all it does is restart whatever PC I plug it into, that was how this got started by the way. What I want to do is add a password type program that asks for a password. If the password isn't entered correctly in 30 seconds it will open my autorun.exe and restart the PC So, what do I do to run that password program? I was thinking an If...Than...Else... on VB, but I only took 1 semester of VB and that was a few months ago. I also am not very good with shell(), which is what I believe you have to use to open a file. I have VB and C#, a GUI is not a requirment, if it were to just pop-up in a command line that would be fine. Thanks in advanced!

There are at least four VB's in play these days. You're going to have to specify which one.

VB '05 Express Edition. That is one reason I am not doing so good with it I think, I used VB6 in school

This is not much of a security measure. An unauthorized user can simply avoid running your autorun by holding down the Shift key whilst inserting the USB drive. In fact, I always do that whenever I insert a USB drive that's not my own, in case it's got an autorun with a virus on it.

It's not a good idea to hardcore the drive letter either, because if that was plugged into my system, it would try to run autorun.exe from my raid array, and would fail.

Yes, I know how to go around it... It is for fun really... My PC doesn't even try running autorun...