USB Stick Warning

[forsythferret]

If you're looking at buying a new USB thumb drive, make sure it doesn't have the "U3 launchpad" on it. If it does, the thumb drive's been preformatted with a second partition, which has been made read-only. That partition contains the "U3 Launchpad" program, which autoruns every time you put the thumbdrive in. Every single time. And it

Comments

[amazingadrian]

Yeah, sometimes you get things that just make you wonder what people are thinking sometimes. Do these programs have any express purpose other than to acess the usb drive? Because it reminds me a lot of the malware Sony was hiding on their music cds back in the day.

[forsythferret]

It lets you run specific programs off the thumb drive, that have been written in its proprietary code. It's virtually identical to the PortableApps loader, except slower and much more annoying.

[gwalla]

Good to know.