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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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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 -- Origional message: schreef in berichtnieuws ... 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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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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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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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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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. "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. -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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