External Hardrive virus

Ben_G · 07-03-2009, 08:47 AM

My friend managed to deposit a nice little virus / trojan of some form onto my external hard-drive. It causes the registry files to change so that task manager and regedit are disabled. I have fixed these problems however I am unsure how to find the file / virus that is on the hardrive causing this.
I have searched for this but found no way to route it out, Norton finds nothing and is fully up to date etc. Interestingly it only does it's deeds if you try and open the hard drive through my computer in which it appears as an empty folder. If the autoplay function is used and you "open folder to view files" then no adverse affects are experienced. It seems to be triggered by the opening of the folder through my computer. I have seen similar problems with drives appearing as folders and they are aparently registry issues according to what I have read however this is obviously linked to this virus. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers

Ben

Ben_G · 07-04-2009, 05:51 AM

It seems that the virus is in my pc somewhere as any external drive connected shows as an empty folder and sets off the registry changes when you try to open it...any ideas?

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07-03-2009, 08:47 AM	#1 (permalink)
Ben_G Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 12 OS: XP home edition	External Hardrive virus My friend managed to deposit a nice little virus / trojan of some form onto my external hard-drive. It causes the registry files to change so that task manager and regedit are disabled. I have fixed these problems however I am unsure how to find the file / virus that is on the hardrive causing this. I have searched for this but found no way to route it out, Norton finds nothing and is fully up to date etc. Interestingly it only does it's deeds if you try and open the hard drive through my computer in which it appears as an empty folder. If the autoplay function is used and you "open folder to view files" then no adverse affects are experienced. It seems to be triggered by the opening of the folder through my computer. I have seen similar problems with drives appearing as folders and they are aparently registry issues according to what I have read however this is obviously linked to this virus. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers Ben

07-04-2009, 05:51 AM	#2 (permalink)
Ben_G Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 12 OS: XP home edition	Re: External Hardrive virus It seems that the virus is in my pc somewhere as any external drive connected shows as an empty folder and sets off the registry changes when you try to open it...any ideas?