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Old August 31st 17, 11:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
No_Name
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Default Problem with Shortcut

I have a Kingston USB drive (Model: SE9). I can copy files to it at the library computers with no problem, but when I get home where I have no internet connection plugging in the drive cause the following pop-up.

Problem with Shortcut

The file or folder 'piouro'. scr' that this shortcut refers to cannot be found.
----------- --------- -------- ------- -------

The Kingston USB drive shows as blank on my home computer. And if I attempt to open it from "My Computer" I get the pop-up that states that the disk is not formatted.

But to see the files on it and copy to it I need to go back to the library.

The library computers are running XP, and my home computer, which is not connected to the internet, is also running XP.

Any advice on where to begin would be appreciated.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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Old September 1st 17, 08:41 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
R.Wieser
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Default Problem with Shortcut

James,

Problem with Shortcut


Shortcuts can point to *annywhere*, and easily to somewhere off of your USB
stick.

Also, the schortcut points, if I look at the file extension (.scr), to a
screensaver program. Which is rather odd.

The Kingston USB drive shows as blank on my home computer.
And if I attempt to open it from "My Computer" I get the pop-up
that states that the disk is not formatted.


In normal circumstances this happens when the filesystem (on your USB stick)
is not recognised.

On both the libraries and your home computer open file explorer, find your
USB stick, right-click it and than from the popup window select
"properties". It should tell you, among other stuff, which filesystem its
formatted with (works for other drives too :-) ).

Odd though that it, on yor home computer, shows as blank looking at it one
way (which way?), and is even supposed to be unformatted when looking at it
using another way ("My Computer") ...


But there is something odd going on he If the stick is empty and even
said (by your home computer) to be unformatted, where the heck does that
"Problem with Shortcut" message coming from ? Assuming that that shortcut
file is actually on your USB stick, is it possible its just not visible ?

Suggestion: open file explorer and select "tools" (from the toolbar at the
top). Than "folder options" - "view". In the shown list find "Hidden
files and folders" and select "Show hidden files and folders". You might
also (temporarily) un-tick the next two entries, "Hide extensions for known
filetypes" and "Hide protexted operating system files".

After that take another look at the stick and see if something is there.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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I have a Kingston USB drive (Model: SE9). I can copy files to it at the

library computers with no problem, but when I get home where I have no
internet connection plugging in the drive cause the following pop-up.

Problem with Shortcut

The file or folder 'piouro'. scr' that this shortcut refers to cannot be

found.
----------- --------- -------- ------- ----

---

The Kingston USB drive shows as blank on my home computer. And if I

attempt to open it from "My Computer" I get the pop-up that states that the
disk is not formatted.

But to see the files on it and copy to it I need to go back to the

library.

The library computers are running XP, and my home computer, which is not

connected to the internet, is also running XP.

Any advice on where to begin would be appreciated.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.




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Old September 1st 17, 10:26 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Problem with Shortcut

wrote:
I have a Kingston USB drive (Model: SE9). I can copy files to it at the library computers with no problem, but when I get home where I have no internet connection plugging in the drive cause the following pop-up.

Problem with Shortcut

The file or folder 'piouro'. scr' that this shortcut refers to cannot be found.
----------- --------- -------- ------- -------

The Kingston USB drive shows as blank on my home computer. And if I attempt to open it from "My Computer" I get the pop-up that states that the disk is not formatted.

But to see the files on it and copy to it I need to go back to the library.

The library computers are running XP, and my home computer, which is not connected to the internet, is also running XP.

Any advice on where to begin would be appreciated.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.


piouro (pi-ouro) = the king
scr = screensaver, screensavers can be malware...

A shortcut, with a missing file, may have been malware, for which
a malware scanner removed the file and quarantined it. That means
something already attempted to clean the file, whatever it was.
AV programs are notorious for not cleaning all the evidence, and
leaving a shortcut like that is a "hint" that something tried to
infect you.

Library computers use "Internet cafe" software. You're supposed
to exit the previous user session, which allows the machine to reboot.
Any malware should be removed on the reboot (as the overlay file system
is cleared by the reboot). The library computer uses a read-only system
partition, which "starts fresh" on each reboot. But that doesn't prevent
patrons from hacking such a system. I would not conclude the defenses
of the library computer are perfect. Merely that the library did make
an attempt to prevent malware from spreading from one customer to
the next. To give that half-a-chance of working, you should always exit
the previous user session *before* you plug in your USB stick.

*******

This is *the* program you want.

http://disktype.sourceforge.net/

It can tell you what file system is present on the USB stick,
and is the first part of forensics.

The problem with that program, is there's no "Windows native"
version.

The version I use is the Cygwin version. You download and install
Cygwin, look through the package list, and tick the "disktype" one.
The "disktype.exe" you get from that, plus the two main Cygwin DLL
files, is then a "portable" program you can copy to any computer
(without Cygwin). My drive doesn't have the whole Cygwin package
on it, and yet these three files still work as a team.

disktype.exe 146,139 bytes
cyggcc_s-1.dll 103,975 bytes
cygwin1.dll 3,197,390 bytes

The syntax that one uses, is Linux-like

disktype /dev/sde

and that would be the equivalent of the fifth disk in Disk Management.
The assumption is, the user belongs to the administrator group,
as otherwise the program would not be able to get raw access to
the hardware (disk).

The program is also available in popular Linux LiveCDs. It's
not right on the disc, and requires typing

disktype

then the shell will print out a command you can use
to download a copy. Then, after it installs, you'd type

sudo disktype /dev/sde

similar to the Windows way of doing it.

Examples of Linux LiveCDs would include Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
Generally on the order of 1.5GB downloads for each ISO9660 file.
You will need a blank DVD, to make boot media, and Imgburn can
convert the ISO into a burned DVD for you.

It's a shame there's no Windows version, but... that's life.
If you want forensics, you have to be prepared to use
whatever environment comes with it.

*******

While there is a hex editor that can open raw disks

https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

I would be hard pressed to recognize every possible mess I would
find that way. So I don't consider that to be a strong contender,
*unless* disktype had already given me some indication of what
type it was.

*******

The 7ZIP program, can open some raw disks that have popular
file systems on them. But again, like the hex editor, that's
not where I'd start. Disktype is where you start. The main
advantage of 7ZIP, is in the field of "bitmap files", where
you copy the entire 16GB USB Flash, into a 16GB file on your
hard drive, and then do your forensic work on that file.
7ZIP will open a bitmap file like that, if say NTFS was
on there. You can also "snip up" the bitmap file, into
pieces, and ask 7ZIP to mount it.

*******

Testdisk is a tool, which scans hard drives and looks for
partitions on the hard drive. It is used to "recompute" the
MBR, if the MBR (first sector) gets erased. But I don't
know if USB Flash are a candidate for scanning by the program.
I don't recollect ever using TestDisk on one. I'll only mention
this, if you have trouble with a hard drive some time. It can
find the partitions for you, if they don't seem to be visible.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Paul
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Old September 8th 17, 09:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
No_Name
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Default Problem with Shortcut

First, the library computers allow no administrative privileges for obvious reasons. No matter what I do the disk shows as empty and unformatted when plugged into my home system, but it operates normally at the library.

The library computers are not turned off between sessions. (At least not normally). It takes several minutes to get back to the desk top when booted up and you have to start your appointed session no later than 5 minutes late.. The session ends when your 45 minute time limit is up, unless no one is in the que to use the computer. The system then gives you 15 minute blocks continuously until someone reserves the pc or the library closing time approaches. When beginning your session you can see a brief pop-up showing the cache from the previous session being cleared, but I don’t know what else happens.

The last couple of attempts when plugging the Kingston into my home pc it gave a slightly different message… “The Problem with Shortcut” message said, “The file or folder 'youevoj.cr' that this shortcut refers to cannot be found.”

My 64GB Kingston works perfectly regardless of the pc it is plugged into, and has for the last couple of years. The 128GB Kingston is brand new. (Kingston USB drives use FAT32).

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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Old September 11th 17, 11:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Problem with Shortcut

On Monday, September 4, 2017 at 4:57:24 PM UTC-4, Shadow wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:06:46 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

I have a Kingston USB drive (Model: SE9). I can copy files to it at the library computers with no problem, but when I get home where I have no internet connection plugging in the drive cause the following pop-up.

Problem with Shortcut

The file or folder 'piouro'. scr' that this shortcut refers to cannot be found.
----------- --------- -------- ------- -------

The Kingston USB drive shows as blank on my home computer. And if I attempt to open it from "My Computer" I get the pop-up that states that the disk is not formatted.


Download Kaspersky Rescue Disk and install it to a NEW USB
stick, using ANOTHER computer.
Then boot your computer with it and run a scan. You are almost
certainly infected, probably by a rootkit (your computer can read the
autorun.inf, but won't allow you to see it).

Very precise instructions he

http://support.kaspersky.com/4162

You should never allow autorun on external media. Turn it off
once you've got rid of the malware. If you plug that Kingston in with
autorun turned on, bam, you're infected again.
HTH
[]'s
--
Don't be evil - Google 2004
We have a new policy - Google 2012


I wouldn't know how to change autorun and the library PCs can't be changed anyway.

I don't know where those "very precise instructions" are for Kapersky, which I downloaded to an empty USB drive, but I can't get past the pop-up that asks me what program to open it up with.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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Old September 12th 17, 04:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Shadow
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Default Problem with Shortcut

On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:20:22 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Monday, September 4, 2017 at 4:57:24 PM UTC-4, Shadow wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:06:46 -0700 (PDT),

wrote:

I have a Kingston USB drive (Model: SE9). I can copy files to it at the library computers with no problem, but when I get home where I have no internet connection plugging in the drive cause the following pop-up.

Problem with Shortcut

The file or folder 'piouro'. scr' that this shortcut refers to cannot be found.
----------- --------- -------- ------- -------

The Kingston USB drive shows as blank on my home computer. And if I attempt to open it from "My Computer" I get the pop-up that states that the disk is not formatted.


Download Kaspersky Rescue Disk and install it to a NEW USB
stick, using ANOTHER computer.
Then boot your computer with it and run a scan. You are almost
certainly infected, probably by a rootkit (your computer can read the
autorun.inf, but won't allow you to see it).

Very precise instructions he

http://support.kaspersky.com/4162

You should never allow autorun on external media. Turn it off
once you've got rid of the malware. If you plug that Kingston in with
autorun turned on, bam, you're infected again.
HTH


I wouldn't know how to change autorun and the library PCs can't be changed anyway.


Google

"disable autorun on windows xp"

The library PCs are irrelevant. Autorun malware cannot infect your PC
if you have autorun disabled.
(to others, yes, I know about firmware malware)

I don't know where those "very precise instructions" are for Kapersky


On the page I gave you(which has the download link to the ISO), there
is a link to

"How to record Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 to an USB device and boot my
computer from it?"

which I downloaded to an empty USB drive, but I can't get past the pop-up that asks me what program to open it up with.


That USB is now infected, because you did not read the
instructions on the page.
[]'s

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

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