pangasinan Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 This is unbelievable.. i recently bought a 8gb usb flash drive of ebay,it arrived today,as soon as i stuck it in my pc my A/V went beserk,the A/V immediately quarintined 2 files below.It looks like the seller is trying to install viruses to access buyers computers..Now i have seen everything !!! H:\Autorun.inf Win32/AutoRun.KS worm,Cleaning occurred during an attempt to access the file by the application: F:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe. H:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-1482476501-1644491937-682003330-1013\isew32.exe a variant of Win32/AutoRun.KS worm,cleaned by deleting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 What else was on the drive? Was it advertised as new? Link to the auction please? This would be a pretty bad way to try and infect computers since it's not very anonymous! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangasinan Posted January 22, 2010 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 There was nothing else on the drive it was sold to me as new..it came in original packaging.But the packaging was not sealed,so it would have been easy to do this. But the question is why ?,why would they do this,it doesnt make sense at all. Surely the seller wouldnt be that cruel and stupid..luckily i have a good antivirus.. Now the memory stick doesnt work either.It just freezes my pc. I have sent the seller a message asking him to explain why there was viruses on the stick..below is the link to the auction. virus drive: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 220539503618 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 It's possible that the USB stick came from the factory that way. It happens. Even software DVDs/CDs have come from the factory infected with viruses. It's also possible that a previous user was infected with a virus. Many viruses will automatically copy themselves to any removable media that is attached to the computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneAgeGamer Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Most likely the seller used it or at least plugged it into their computer (only takes once). They probably have the virus on their computer. I doubt it was malicious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pangasinan Posted January 22, 2010 Author Share Posted January 22, 2010 Most likely the seller used it or at least plugged it into their computer (only takes once). They probably have the virus on their computer. I doubt it was malicious. You reckon ?,he has told me to return the drive to him(at my cost).He mentioned nothing about the viruses. If i sold something and was told it had a virus and i was innocent,im as sure as hell that i would be denying it to the hilt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyyking Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 EBAY just plain sucks anymore. I know DOCALIKE would never let this happen on GameGavel . Good lck getting EBAY to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwackery Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 I know DOCALIKE would never let this happen on GameGavel. Is DOCALIKE the Wario version of SOCALMIKE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Climber Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 I know DOCALIKE would never let this happen on GameGavel. Is DOCALIKE the Wario version of SOCALMIKE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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