Flash Drives & W32.SillyFDC ... please help!

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BeVonk!

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I've got Norton Endpoint installed on my laptop. I've got two USB flash drives that I daily use on this laptop. Today Endpoint picked up a worm called "W32.SillyFDC" on both flash drives. It reports that this worm is located in "autorun.inf" on both drives. I formatted both flash drives (several times already) but Endpoint keeps on picking this worm up - so formatting does nothing to get rid of it. I cannot use the flash drives at all now.

What more can I do to clean the two flash drives?
 
I suppose a different anti virus or re-partition the drives...
 
Did someone mention Norton?!?

Ayee, I've just been using N360, which is, let's say impetuous at best.

Try a download of Kaspersky Internet Suite. You can have it fully functional for 15 days. It's better behaved than the N word.
 
I've just registered for a trial version of kaspersky and will download the file this evening. I've disabled autorun for CD and USB for now. Transcend offers a drive rebuild application that I used on the Transcend drive. Unfortuantely Kingston doesn't offer the same type of application for its drives. I want to load Kasperksy first before I reinstate autorun.

What is weird is that another computer at work with the exact same Endpoint installation (and same virus defs) picks up nothing on any of the drives.
 
Are these U3 flash drives by any chance?

Bear in mind that antivirus packages sometimes give false and conflicting reports for viruses and malware.
 
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It's possible that the malware itself is still sitting in your Windows install, and is hooked pretty deep. I saw this at my ex job, where cleaning the flash drive didn't help, as the malware just infected the drive straight away again.

Odds are the executable file is sitting somewhere in the C:\Recycler folder.
 
funny i keep getting a virus error too from my flashdrive when i plug it into my usb hub. i reformatted the flashdrive but still the same virus comes up. when i installed it into the hub of my apple keyboard it worked fine.
 
Okay ...

I've given Kaspersky my e-mail personal details in order to receive an e-mail with a link to a trial version of its software ... but when using the e-mail'd link I get an empty page with the word "Forbidden" written on it ... not very helpful. When I did the same for Norton all worked perfectly. I thus ended up with Norton on my two home machines last night. Both machines picked up W32.SillyFDC on my flash drives.

Symantec claims that this is an easy virus to remove ... but it's not. Formatting the flash drive does nothing ... indicating that the virus is well cloaked on the computers. Nothing is detected when doing full scans on all the computers ... so Norton is unable to solve what they claim to be an easy to remove virus.
 
waynegohl said:
funny i keep getting a virus error too from my flashdrive when i plug it into my usb hub. i reformatted the flashdrive but still the same virus comes up. when i installed it into the hub of my apple keyboard it worked fine.
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Wayne, my problems actually started immediately after I downloaded games for the Chatterbox. It's the only site I've done any downloads from in the last week - and I use my flash drives in all three my computers daily so it could have spread in no time. Not sure, but it is one suspect.
 
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Dowloaded and installed Kaspersky AV 2009 today. Way better than Endpoint, Norton AV 2009 and F-Secure 2009. Kaspersky found and solved problems the others couldn't and it seems as if my original problem is also sorted out now. I'm definitely going to buy a three PC license from Kaspersky before my trial period is over.
 
Bought three licenses for Kaspersky today at Incredible Connection for R299. Single license goes for R199! Bargain.

One lesson I've learned from this exercise is never to trust free AV software.
 
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