Wow, this is not a strict RTFA article as I am not citing any other article. I was hoping to find someone with a similar situation but decided to vent on my own. SO, today I open up a brand new Dell DataTraveler 4GB USB drive which came with my new Dell laptop. Lucky me I had an anti-virus program installed because smack, the first thing that happens when I put the USB drive into my computer is “warning - trojan horse detected in autorun” Unfortunately, I forgot to delete the autorun file, which is hidden, and then plugged the USB drive into another machine I was transferring data to. Now that machine has a virus. Fuckin IE pops up with some chinese website and the first thing I do is goto the avast website… Hopefully I can remove the virus without any problems.
UPDATE 2008-12-04:
Avast says “Computer is infected with win:32-Trojan-gen {other}” Also, when I first plugged the USB in, there were 3 “folders” on the drive named: iiiiiiiii, iiiiiiiiii, iiiiiiiiii… i’m not sure exactly how many i’s there were but I found this link: http://www.threatexpert.com/files/iiiiiiiiii.exe.html
So the reason i put it in quotes is because it looked like a folder with the icon but if you look at the extension, it was actually an exe. I know I’ve heard this happening before, and found a similar incident on hard drives http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/11/2246246 but haven’t looked hard enough to see if other people are experiencing it with USB drives.
UPDATE 2008-12-04:
According to http://www.threatexpert.com/files/iiiiiiiiii.exe.html, that EXE is also known as:
Infostealer.Bancos.gen
Keylog.gen
Trojan-Spy.VB!sd5
Trojan-Spy.Win32.VB.fj
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