Can you use someone else's USB stick safely?
I recently found a USB stick, which was convenient since I was planning on buying one anyway. However, I once heard that you should never plug someone else's USB stick into your PC because of viruses. Is there a good way to erase the USB without taking too much risk?
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Launch CD/DVD live Linux and delete the USB stick
That's a good idea, I'll try! 👍
Be fair and do what Zatana writes.You can also come into the situation once, then you would be happy to get your stick back.You only win a few euros, the loser loses any important data/images. LG gadus
The embroidery firmware isn't erasable, but there might be bad guys in it.
formatting=delete
I understand
We're among us, and we can do something about it;)
When I found a stick, I'd be careful. See DVD LiveLinux.
I don't want to use it. Who knows how long he's going through
In principle, it is correct, but as I said, with newly purchased parts (if not via Amazon from any backwater sources), this is far more unlikely. Must make FS decide what is more important to him: save a few € or minimize security risks. I'm just giving my knowledge of myself here, and I don't know any behavior.
I know, yes, stood in the CT sometimes, a little longer ago
BUT, as I said, then we should not use electronic or electronic devices, because with everything you can catch something if you take it quite accurately
ANNEX The best way is to switch all electronic and electrical all kinds off and never again, because everything could have created a villain >>>> Bissel overreacted, not? Didn't get that out of my fingers, read at heise-sec sometime. Of course, there are also such possibilities in new parts, but far less often.
It is best to turn on all electronic and electrical all-offs and never again, because on everything a villain might have created himself
Cell phone. Very likely, an attacking USB stick would be tuned to Windows and that would be the empty inputs on the phone. However, the USB sticks that can start on their own are not the right USB sticks that look like that. Are actually programmed input devices, so you couldn't delete from them anyway
Well, for a simple writer it doesn't need anything special. USB stick is enough for this, at least as long as the user does not use current Windows…
As a rule, systems do not accept an author unless you switch it to
Does it mean that there is no danger in the right USBs? Mobile phone does not go, is not a micro USB or USB-C
Adapter… If you didn't make Auto Run targeted, yes.
By the way, since you found it, you should dispose of it. USB sticks are not expensive. AutoRun only goes to ban USB sticks, but since you found it, you don't know if it's one
Okay, thanks.
Do you have to google it, I just don't know in my head
How to check this?
right, since Win 7 I don't remember anymore. Only you never know what's going on on the user side 🙂
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This concern is completely justified! There are quite people who "lost" infected USB sticks! At the prices for new sticks today I would never take such a risk. Also formatting cannot eliminate any malicious program on the stick.
You should "must" leave him at the fund office. Because the data can have a high financial value for the owner. If you don't do it, it's a reference. There, he may be examined to find the legal owner.
Right in general. But if you have important data on a USB stick, you should not do it yourself!
Apart from that, it is also forbidden to see foreign data.
You or the found office will not come around if you want to find out who the stick belongs to.
If it's a noname or an all-world stick, you don't have to give it to me.
That's why I have a text file on my USB sticks with information about who it belongs and where it can be delivered.
If someone wants to give him back to me, he knows where to go.
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Plug in and open only on an insulated system, best under Livelinux with a current AV scanner.
Definitely not on governmental or corporate computers.
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Too bad the USB killer has its price, so you could get rid of it to people 🙂
Just throw that away the one that belongs to someone else can be something for private stuff on it
Drop the stick in the fund office.