USB Flash Drives - A Perfect Place for Computer Viruses to Hide

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Contributed by: Indrė Date: 2008-06-26

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Recently, Trend Micro, Inc., an antivirus company, has carried a survey on the places where computer viruses tend to hide. It was noticed that the greatest number of computers are infected with viruses from the portable USB flash drives which are a NAND-type flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB connector.

In February, 58 computers were infected by the infected programs from the USB flash drives. This number has almost doubled in March, meanwhile in April 110 cases of the infections were observed. In May 150 USB flash drives were infected.

As the company states, the most malicious program which attacks computers is called Mal Otorun1. The program first infects data storage devices. Then it copies a virus to any flash drive which is connected to the computer.

In order to protect your computers from the maliciuos programs, the companies or USB flash users should regularly clean their storage devices. Besides, people should carefully choose computers from which data should be copied into the USB flashes.

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User Comments

ngelay 2008-12-24

i want to know how to repair this problem!

Deva 2008-12-06

how do i remove trojan virus from system memory,
some website told it can be removed my emergency disk!
so caan you tell me how can cerate emergency disk????
watng for your replay
S.Devaprasad

vusumzi 2008-11-04

I can't remove Mal_otorun from my usb.

helper 2008-10-31

Have you read this article http://www.pc1news.com/news/0089/removing-mal-otor un1-how-to-remove-mal-otorun1.html ?

veronica 2008-10-29

i cant remove Mal_otorun from my6 usb, may i get some helph?

soph 2008-09-10

I have this as well. The thing is...I've been using the same flash drive for awhile now. And lately, I've been just using it on my laptop. I haven't connected to another computer in a month or so. I have done multiple virus scans but the virus is still there. (Also...I'm not sure if the two are connected, but my laptop's internet have been screwy while my brother's computer's internet isn't - we're connected to the same modem) Any help would be great! Thanks

Tom 2008-08-22

I have fighting this virus for weeks now, it came through a fake adobe flash download. Then it attacked my flash drives, then it attacked my corporate computers, any advice would be helpful!

simons 2008-08-05

Hello, Jeet. I think you have to scan your memory stick with the antivirus program. The virus should be removed after you do that. I hope you do have an antivirus in your pc. you could have caught Mal Otorun from another computer.

Jeet Singh 2008-08-05

There is such kind of virus in my machine - Mal Otorun1. Need help to solve the same.