Is that possible?

Hi.

My friend is working for a computer company where the LAN security is so
tight.
One day he brought the memory stick to finish his work at home and put it on
his home PC to read. Then all of sudden, all the HDD, not only the stick,
connected the PC automatically changed the security status and refused to
access, even he himself is the administrator. So he said this memory stick
might have some program, which is running automatically, to change it as
it's placed into another PC.
Then is that kind of thing really possible?

thanks.

M.M.

"M.Miura" wrote in message
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My friend is working for a computer company where the LAN security is so
tight.
One day he brought the memory stick to finish his work at home and put it
on
his home PC to read. Then all of sudden, all the HDD, not only the stick,
connected the PC automatically changed the security status and refused to
access, even he himself is the administrator. So he said this memory stick
might have some program, which is running automatically, to change it as
it's placed into another PC.
Then is that kind of thing really possible?

Yes this is possible. (Proof is that it happened.)
Your friend needs special help from the office System Admin.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

"M.Miura" wrote in message
...

My friend is working for a computer company where the LAN security is so
tight.
One day he brought the memory stick to finish his work at home and put it
on
his home PC to read. Then all of sudden, all the HDD, not only the stick,
connected the PC automatically changed the security status and refused to
access, even he himself is the administrator. So he said this memory stick
might have some program, which is running automatically, to change it as
it's placed into another PC.
Then is that kind of thing really possible?

Yes this is possible. (Proof is that it happened.)
Your friend needs special help from the office System Admin.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

M.Miura wrote:
My friend is working for a computer company where the LAN security
is so tight.
One day he brought the memory stick to finish his work at home and
put it on his home PC to read. Then all of sudden, all the HDD, not
only the stick, connected the PC automatically changed the security
status and refused to access, even he himself is the administrator.
So he said this memory stick might have some program, which is
running automatically, to change it as it's placed into another PC.
Then is that kind of thing really possible?

Possible? Yes.

Probable that something else happened? Yes. ;-)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

M.Miura wrote:
My friend is working for a computer company where the LAN security
is so tight.
One day he brought the memory stick to finish his work at home and
put it on his home PC to read. Then all of sudden, all the HDD, not
only the stick, connected the PC automatically changed the security
status and refused to access, even he himself is the administrator.
So he said this memory stick might have some program, which is
running automatically, to change it as it's placed into another PC.
Then is that kind of thing really possible?

Possible? Yes.

Probable that something else happened? Yes. ;-)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html