Autorun blocked on USB pen?

[Kenny Cargill]

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

 

[Ed Cryer]

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-home-knowledgebase-detail/kbid/801

Ed

 

[Mike S.]

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.

 

[Wolf K]

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.

IOW, check for malware (viruses and other stuff). I do this with all new
USB devices.

I also use Vipre, which detects any USB attached after boot, and asks
whether it should be checked. You should have a security suite running
that does the same thing.

Good luck.

 

[Kenny Cargill]

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

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

 

[Char Jackson]

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.