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Suspicious Pendrive

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drrank

IS-IT--Management
Feb 9, 2006
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Hi all,

My company have recently buy pendrives customized with the company logo to send to our clients.

the pendrive has a presentation in powerpoint that initiates when user inserts the pendrive

To my surprise my antivirus detected a virus Trojan.AgentBNZ in a file named autosvr.exe (seems to be the autorun generated by our provider). The powerpoint is virus free. If the pendrive is inserted in a system with no antivirus install this file autosvr.exe in documents\Settings\.. of the user.

if an antivirus is then installed it detect not only Agent.BNZ but other trojans.

The provider tell me that the file autosvr.exe is not a virus, and probably the antivirus will detect this file as a virus for the size of the file.

I don't believe much this explanation.

Could someone give me a hint?

Thanks in advance!!

Sergi
 
I'd definitely format the pendrive.

I guess it's not actually a virus but I'd find really annoying if a presentations tries to open everytime I connect my pendrive.

Cheers,
Dian
 
Thanks for your answer

but the problem is not that simple,

My enterprise has delivered this pendrives to our clients
who are complaining of a virus infection caused by our pendrive.

I want to know if our provider has any responsability in a virus outbreak, and take legal actions against him if this really a virus.
 
I'd be sure there's no trojan out there. I'd use different antivirus or online checks. I'd also check if it tries to open any port if installed with no antivirus.

The trojan size is 28672 bytes, maybe it's the same size as the exe file.

Anyway, I'd never accept software from any provider that doesn't pass a security test, and the best is an antivirus. I'd also stop distributing those pendrives. If I were I provided, I wouldn't accept it.

Cheers,
Dian
 
As far as who is responsible, you really need to talk to a lawyer who specializes in computer law. Ultimately, repairing the bad feelings of your clients towards your company should be your goal regardless of whether it is a virus or not. I personally would put my energies towards repairing that, first.



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