On 2/14/2017 6:26 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"Ant" wrote

|I always tell Windows to eject my USB flash drives before physically
| pulling them out. When I do a scan, it finds no problems.
|

That drives me crazy, too, and I keep meaning
to fix it, but haven't got around to dealing with it.
I actually get two idiotic messages. One asks me
what I want Explorer to do. The other suggests
a scan. They always come back, regardless of
how I respond.

This might help:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../cc938275.aspx

That seems to be the solution on XP. NoDriveTypeAutorun
is what TweakUIXP uses to stop autorun on drives, which is
a good idea for general security on removable drives and disks.**

Shell Hardware Detection service can also be stopped.

I haven't actually explored any of this on Win7, but if
you do I'd love to hear what works.


** Here's a link to a detailed explanation of the setting.
Note that the first section of this article is actually just a lot
of gibberish about how to get updates that will add the
setting to Group Policy Editor, but if you keep reading
you'll find instructions to set it by hand down below.
I'm posting the Google cache link for those who don't
want to enable script at microsoft.com. MS have taken
to blocking their support pages entirely unless script is
allowed to run.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&gbv=1&ct=clnk






Have you verifed that the capacity of the thumb drive matches the label?
Fake flash drives might fail the OS test.