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<blockquote data-quote="shmu26" data-source="post: 836009" data-attributes="member: 37647">I got all excited last week when I actually encountered real malware. Someone gave my wife a flash drive to put some files on it, and yeah, it had a really ancient flash drive bug that turns everything into shortcuts, so you can&#039;t see the files and folders. And if you click on the shortcut, it tries to run malware by a bat script or something. But opened in Linux, the flash drive behaves normally. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />My wife&#039;s laptop has Windows Defender and Comodo Firewall. (Also H_C, but with light settings.) WD didn&#039;t make a peep, but Comodo @CS contained the malware. Hurrah.I live in a certain segment of the population that doesn&#039;t use internet so much, and uses flash drives a lot. (I am a bit of an exception.) Some people don&#039;t have an updated AV on their computer, and the flash drive viruses are hard to squash, they just keep circulating.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shmu26, post: 836009, member: 37647"] I got all excited last week when I actually encountered real malware. Someone gave my wife a flash drive to put some files on it, and yeah, it had a really ancient flash drive bug that turns everything into shortcuts, so you can't see the files and folders. And if you click on the shortcut, it tries to run malware by a bat script or something. But opened in Linux, the flash drive behaves normally. :) My wife's laptop has Windows Defender and Comodo Firewall. (Also H_C, but with light settings.) WD didn't make a peep, but Comodo @CS contained the malware. Hurrah. I live in a certain segment of the population that doesn't use internet so much, and uses flash drives a lot. (I am a bit of an exception.) Some people don't have an updated AV on their computer, and the flash drive viruses are hard to squash, they just keep circulating. [/QUOTE]

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