K:\ is not a valid win32 application

Energize · 23 Mar 2008 at 21:02

Why on earth does this keep coming up everytime I try to access my pen drive through My Computer?

I can access files off it fine through the browser window, and open it in explorer when the menu comes up after I insert it into the computer, but everytime I try to access it through my computer I get that stupid error.

bledd · 23 Mar 2008 at 21:13

is there something set in the autorun options for it?

turn on hidden files and browse the root of it

Energize · 23 Mar 2008 at 21:28

There's a non hidden file called tel.xls.exe that keeps recreating itself everytime I delete it. Autoplay is disabled if thats what you mean.

Burnsy2023 · 23 Mar 2008 at 21:33

Energize said:
There's a non hidden file called tel.xls.exe that keeps recreating itself everytime I delete it. Autoplay is disabled if thats what you mean.

Doesn't sound healthy....

Virus scanned?

Burnsy

Monkeynut · 23 Mar 2008 at 21:35

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=tel.xls.exe&meta=&btnG=Google+Search

Oh dear.

Schnippzle · 23 Mar 2008 at 21:47

Atleast it doesnt seem to horrible to get rid of

Energize · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:01

Ah, must be from the schools computers. No suprises there.

This is exactly why I use a sandbox.

Energize · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:38

And why everyone should have autoplay disabled. Why microsoft doesn't have this disabled by default is beyond me.

Burnsy2023 · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:40

Energize said:
And why everyone should have autoplay disabled. Why microsoft doesn't have this disabled by default is beyond me.

USB devices have autorun disabled by default bar USB CDROM drives.

Burnsy

Energize · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:45

Then how does the file keep recreating itself using the autorun.ini file on the stick, despite the fact that I explicitly disabled autorun on all types of drive?

Burnsy2023 · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:47

Energize said:
Then how does the file keep recreating itself using the autorun.ini file on the stick, despite the fact that I explicitly disabled autorun on all types of drive?

Is there another program on your system writing to the USB device?

Burnsy

Energize · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:50

Burnsy2023 said:
Is there another program on your system writing to the USB device?

Burnsy

No. The malware file isn't anywhere on my computer either.

Burnsy2023 · 23 Mar 2008 at 22:53

Energize said:
No. The malware file isn't anywhere on my computer either.

So is autorun enabled then? If so there must be another program recreating the file, it can't do it by itself.

Burnsy

bledd · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:05

Burnsy2023 said:
USB devices have autorun disabled by default bar USB CDROM drives.

Burnsy

for every usb storage device i have, when i plug it in (xp and vista) i get the 'what do you want to do' thing

and any device with the autorun.inf + icon loads the icon up

Energize · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:06

Burnsy2023 said:
So is autorun enabled then? If so there must be another program recreating the file, it can't do it by itself.

Burnsy

Despite telling my computer earlier to disable autorun for some reason it only disabled it on cd-rom drives, I now have just had to go into the group policy editor and disable it that way as well. So much for microsoft automatically disabling it, it's this incompetence that causes so many security flaws. Looks like whoever wrote that malware file failed though as it was 0kb and failed to execute.

Monkeynut · 24 Mar 2008 at 01:45

Hurrah for crap malware creators!