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Old December 14th 12, 12:09 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Kenny Cargill
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Default Autorun blocked on USB pen?

Avira AV tells me "autorun is blocked" every time I attach this particular
USB pen drive, not others. There is no autorun file on it, only video
files. Not a major problem but am curious as to what's causing it.
It's a 16GB Sandisk Cruzer Blade.

Kenny Cargill

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Old December 14th 12, 01:26 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ed Cryer
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Default Autorun blocked on USB pen?

Kenny Cargill wrote:
Avira AV tells me "autorun is blocked" every time I attach this
particular USB pen drive, not others. There is no autorun file on it,
only video files. Not a major problem but am curious as to what's
causing it.
It's a 16GB Sandisk Cruzer Blade.

Kenny Cargill


Avira and other users are your best help here.
Try this;
http://www.avira.com/en/support-for-...etail/kbid/801

Ed

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Old December 14th 12, 03:04 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mike S.
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Default Autorun blocked on USB pen?


In article ,
Kenny Cargill wrote:
Avira AV tells me "autorun is blocked" every time I attach this particular
USB pen drive, not others. There is no autorun file on it, only video
files. Not a major problem but am curious as to what's causing it.
It's a 16GB Sandisk Cruzer Blade.


Have not run into _this_ type of false behavior with Avira.

Are you sure there isn't a hidden autorun.inf file in the root directory?
This is common removable-media malware behavior.


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Old December 16th 12, 07:37 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Kenny Cargill
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Default Autorun blocked on USB pen?

Thanks for the replies, solution was fairly simple when I realised how. In
Folder Options ticked "show hidden files" and sure enough there was an
autorun.inf file which I deleted. Not sure where it came from but don't
think it was suspicious.

"Kenny Cargill" wrote in message
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Avira AV tells me "autorun is blocked" every time I attach this particular
USB pen drive, not others. There is no autorun file on it, only video
files. Not a major problem but am curious as to what's causing it.
It's a 16GB Sandisk Cruzer Blade.

Kenny Cargill

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Old December 16th 12, 09:14 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default Autorun blocked on USB pen?

On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:37:58 -0000, "Kenny Cargill"
wrote:

Thanks for the replies, solution was fairly simple when I realised how. In
Folder Options ticked "show hidden files" and sure enough there was an
autorun.inf file which I deleted. Not sure where it came from but don't
think it was suspicious.


It's in plain text, so you could have opened it in any app that can
read text files.

--

Char Jackson
 




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