My laptop runs on Windows Vista Home Premium with all the latest patches (exept for SP1, still need to install that one). When I plug in a USB drive, no matter which brand, the light of the USB stick starts flashing non-stop, and the mouse cursor, the standard arrow with that Vista-specific blue circle (equivalent of an hourglass, I guess), flickers along just as crazily. If I try to disconnect the USB drive (via safely remove hardware), I am told that another program may be using it, although not a single file on the USB drive is open. I can't disconnect the USB drive for a good two or three minutes until all the flickering and flashing has stopped. So I ran a HijackThis scan during the flickering and flashing. I have already saved an earlier HijackThis scan of my computer (no nasties, everything clean), and when I compared the two, I saw one process which had popped up during the USB "flamenco":
C:\Windows\system32\verclsid.exe
It disappeared after the flickering and flashing. What on earth is that? Isn't the entry above actually part of a Microsoft patch?
C:\Windows\system32\verclsid.exe
It disappeared after the flickering and flashing. What on earth is that? Isn't the entry above actually part of a Microsoft patch?