Found a USB stick… what's the best way to see what's on it?

Hi! I found a USB stick outside and took it with me. I thought I'd check it at home to see if there was a person on it I could give it to. But then it occurred to me that it might also contain viruses.

What is the best way to proceed?

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gufrastella
1 year ago

Hello into2017!

Best in the fund office.

Otherwise install sandboxie and then open in the sandbox.

https://www.computerbild.de/download/Sandboxie-1167955.html

LG

gufrastella

verreisterNutzer
1 year ago
Reply to  gufrastella

Should it be “professional” malware it is not recommended to rely on such a program.

gufrastella
1 year ago

You’re right.

mchawk777
1 year ago

USB stick found… how best to look at what’s on it?

Not at all. Drop that thing in the fund office.
(Or annoy you, if that thing’s cracking or a killer stick!)

yamachiyo99
1 year ago

I would also give him to the fund office or the police, because as you already know, there can also be viruses there. I’d check him with a Linux at most.

yamachiyo99
1 year ago
Reply to  into2017

On Linux, Windows viruses cannot spread 😉

Eyserider
1 year ago

This is a well-known trick: the USB stick, lose” and wait for anyone to put it in his PC. Just throw away or bring to the police

verreisterNutzer
1 year ago

It is best of course on an isolated device that has no internet connection, like an old laptop. Otherwise you could get a write blocker for usb-sticks and look at it in a virtual machine. Just in your devices you use and connected to your home network, you shouldn’t stick it.

Asporc
1 year ago

Drop the stick in a fund office.

NobbyNopps
1 year ago
NobbyNopps
1 year ago
Reply to  into2017

See video

verreisterNutzer
1 year ago
Reply to  NobbyNopps

That doesn’t answer the question.

NobbyNopps
1 year ago

Do you want to write extra? If it’s important, is it encoded and for Bockmist the risk is taking?

Throw away!

dvdfan
1 year ago
Reply to  NobbyNopps

Terrible idea.

And even the external design is like a standard USB stick. I have a stick that looks exactly like that. Including the slightly oblique shape of the cap edge.

verreisterNutzer
1 year ago

That’s right, I didn’t really think about it. For questioners, this will hardly be a possibility.

NobbyNopps
1 year ago

Well, they take the stick apart and grab directly on the storage cells… As with “dissolved” SSDs that are not deleted, even if the SSD controller claims… Wuuusaa

Matching devices can be ordered cheaply on Wish… Not even expensive

verreisterNutzer
1 year ago

Of course, no questioner is, but what do you think of how IT researchers are going? They can also make bad nix and throw away xD The question was how to be sure to access it, this is the answer now.

NobbyNopps
1 year ago

Aha

verreisterNutzer
1 year ago

Such USB sticks that do not use malware but physically “attract” can of course be badly tested on an even needed device. Therefore, and also because of malware, the safest option is just an isolated device not connected to the Internet (like an old laptop).

NobbyNopps
1 year ago

Okay, then explain how to safely access the USB stick in the video, you light 🍿

And this is, as it is well mentioned, an age of its kind. Today, more

verreisterNutzer
1 year ago

The question was how to safely access the USB stick. There are quite possibilities to throw away or not at all is no helpful answer.

NobbyNopps
1 year ago

The video is 6 years old and things are now available in every form. But please…

I just throw away something, things are nix more value nowadays

Derprofi699789
1 year ago

Like you said, viruses could not be in it.

Wippich
1 year ago

Put in and check your virus program.

Asporc
1 year ago
Reply to  into2017

Well guessed. That can actually happen.

Jensen1970
1 year ago

Killer USB, who knows.