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virus in my flash memory
Name: jad73 Date: April 11, 2006 at 03:39:38 Pacific OS: wiindows xp s2 CPU/Ram: 450/128 Product: intel
Comment:
I got a virus in my flash memory (king stone 2G) it appears like a folder and it has the name like 0000.000000 further more it clones itself and it increases by the time, I made a format for it but it did not work it appears again and again after the format, if any one have a solution for this problem pls help me (even the viruse scan did not work) with regards
Name: ceri sheeran Date: April 11, 2006 at 08:33:09 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
Try formatting the unit in SAFE mode
Format it as FAT not FAT32 or NTFS
hth
Ceri
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Response Number 2
Name: zero244 Date: April 11, 2006 at 17:49:47 Pacific
Reply:
You might consider......its not just your flash drive thats infected......your harddrive may all be infected. Just a few minutes ago....I had two emails sent to me that were infected with worms. You have to be very carefull these days the Net is saturated with viruses etc.
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