![]() Once applied it effectivelly disables Windows from automatically executing any malicious file that might be stored in that particular USB drive. When applied on a USB drive, the vaccine permanently blocks an innocuous AUTORUN.INF file, preventing it from being read, created, deleted or modified. The free Panda USB Vaccine can be used on individual USB drives to disable its AUTORUN.INF file in order to prevent malware infections from spreading automatically. This is a really helpful feature as there is no user friendly and easy way of completely disabling AutoRun on a Windows PC. ![]() The free Panda USB Vaccine allows users to vaccinate their PCs in order to disable AutoRun completely so that no program from any USB/CD/DVD drive (regardless of whether they have been previously vaccinated or not) can auto-execute. The most recent examples of this are the W32/Sality, W32/Virutas and also the W32/Conficker worm which, in addition to spreading via a vulnerability and network shares, also spreads via USB drives.ĭue to the large amount of malware-related problems associated with Microsoft AutoRun we have created a free utility for our user community called Panda USB Vaccine. The malware achieves this by copying a malicious executable in the drive and modifying the AUTORUN.INF file so that Windows opens the malicious file silently as soon as the drive is mounted. The problem is that this feature, widely critizised by the security community, is used by malware in order to spread by infecting as soon as a new drive is inserted in a computer. The AUTORUN.INF file is a configuration file that is normally located in the root directory of removable media and contains, among other things, a reference to the icon that will be shown associated to the removable drive or volume, a description of its content and also the possibility to define a program which should be executed automatically when the unit is mounted. The Microsoft Windows Operating Systems use the AUTORUN.INF file from removable drives in order to know which actions to perform when a new external storage device, such as a USB drive or CD/DVD, is inserted into the PC. The owners manual says nothing about this.UPDATE October 8, 2009: New version 1.0.1.4 released. Would love to hear what other people's research on this have found. I have not tried FLAC yet but if that works that might be the answer to actually filling up the 128GB using 255 folders and getting uncompressed audio. as well it does not accept AAC lossless format. i decided to re-compress my originals to 256kbps vbr AAC to get better quality. there might also be a number of files per folder limit as well.Īt 160kbps AAC compression 255 folders works out to about 16GB. Now since the limit is 255 folders and it seems to automatically create the folders based on the files meta-data then perhaps if you can erase this meta-data from the files you could put more songs per folder, but then it might be hard to sort through. So you get tired of one partition then you just hide it and un-hide one you want to hear. So basically you can break your big drive up into 128GB partitions all of FAT32 format and then you just can just hide the partitions you do not want to play. As well using a partition tool like EASEUS Partition Magic you can 'hide' partitions and it will use then the first unhidden partition as the lowest drive letter. ![]() I also found you can partition your drive up into as many FAT32 partitions as you want (as long as they are under 128 GB each) and it will only accept the first partition (lowest drive letter). On a related note, does anyone know where I can get upgrades or even hacks for the sound system / navigation software? I imagine it is running some distro of Linux that some geek has hacked into and mod-ed to include a badly needed graphic EQ or something like that.Īfter testing a number of formats and partitions I have found anything other than a FAT32 partition fails and any partition larger then 128 GB fails and there is a limit of 255 folders. Does anyone know the restrictions of this USB support? Is it too large a drive or perhaps not formatted correctly, or maybe draws too much power? Does anyone know the brand/model of the biggest drive that will work? ![]() It works fine with a 32G flash drive I have formatted in the same way. Unfortunately, when I plug it into the USB the lcd display just says 'Check iPod or USB Drive' or something like that and will not play the music. backup partitions and included apps and whatnot that came with the drive I managed to repartition and format it as FAT32. Well, after considerable effort in stripping off the B.S. I thought 'great I will get this wicked portable WD 1TB 'My Passport' Essential SE hard drive and put my whole library of music on it. What I especially like is the USB port that lets you plug in a flash drive to play music from. I recently bought the new 2010 Altima 2.5SL with all the goods. ![]()
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