Insanity42
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I have read through this thread
http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/508072-says-flash-drive-full-but.html
but it has expired and can't reply to it.
A friend has a similar problem, he has a 8Gb flash drive, that by its properties says it has ~7.11Gb available. When attempting to copy a 4.5Gb file, it states it is full and will not copy it.
I did attempt to look for hidden files, none found. I copy off everything that was on the flash drive, then formatted it, recopied his files back on and same issue.
When I plugged his flash drive into my laptop, my NOD32 detected Conficker worm, and removed the infected files, but this tells me his computer is infected, which I will soon fix for him.
Details
G:\Autorun.inf INF/Conficker.worm
G:\RECYCLER\S-5-3-42-****\jwgkvsq.vmx Win32/Conficker.AA.worm
I wonder if the recycler infection is responsible, but I am not very knowledgeable in what specific viruses may do. Or perhaps it is computer's recycler that is the source.
Even if the worm is responsible, it was cleaned, before I copied his files, and the drive was reformatted. As far as I know, it should cleaned, until he takes it back to his computer.
I regularly scan my laptop with both NOD32 and SpySweeper, and currently am not infected with anything they can detect.
My next step is to do a scan of his hard drive, remove what might be there, then see what may happen.
Any other thoughts?
http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/508072-says-flash-drive-full-but.html
but it has expired and can't reply to it.
A friend has a similar problem, he has a 8Gb flash drive, that by its properties says it has ~7.11Gb available. When attempting to copy a 4.5Gb file, it states it is full and will not copy it.
I did attempt to look for hidden files, none found. I copy off everything that was on the flash drive, then formatted it, recopied his files back on and same issue.
When I plugged his flash drive into my laptop, my NOD32 detected Conficker worm, and removed the infected files, but this tells me his computer is infected, which I will soon fix for him.
Details
G:\Autorun.inf INF/Conficker.worm
G:\RECYCLER\S-5-3-42-****\jwgkvsq.vmx Win32/Conficker.AA.worm
I wonder if the recycler infection is responsible, but I am not very knowledgeable in what specific viruses may do. Or perhaps it is computer's recycler that is the source.
Even if the worm is responsible, it was cleaned, before I copied his files, and the drive was reformatted. As far as I know, it should cleaned, until he takes it back to his computer.
I regularly scan my laptop with both NOD32 and SpySweeper, and currently am not infected with anything they can detect.
My next step is to do a scan of his hard drive, remove what might be there, then see what may happen.
Any other thoughts?