U3 Applications
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I have used USB thumbdrives for years as have most. I have always disliked the U3 'smart' technology and have always uninstalled off any drive that I had. Recently I bought a new 16GB Sandisk cruzer that had the U3 crap loaded on it, but this time I did some research on just how it works instead of just deleting it. If I am reading the information correctly, this is a major security consideration. What do you think?
'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control,mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country! from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' - Jay Leno
Based solely on the flip of a coin, I'd say delete it ;P
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I have used USB thumbdrives for years as have most. I have always disliked the U3 'smart' technology and have always uninstalled off any drive that I had. Recently I bought a new 16GB Sandisk cruzer that had the U3 crap loaded on it, but this time I did some research on just how it works instead of just deleting it. If I am reading the information correctly, this is a major security consideration. What do you think?
'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control,mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country! from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' - Jay Leno
What sort of security consideration :rolleyes: ? I treat the U3 crap like buying a hard drive with an O/S installed. Format the sucker down to the bare bits, because I don't know where it's been.
Software Zen:
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I have used USB thumbdrives for years as have most. I have always disliked the U3 'smart' technology and have always uninstalled off any drive that I had. Recently I bought a new 16GB Sandisk cruzer that had the U3 crap loaded on it, but this time I did some research on just how it works instead of just deleting it. If I am reading the information correctly, this is a major security consideration. What do you think?
'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control,mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country! from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' - Jay Leno
I agree with you. Although I do like the "Eject" button that is added to the system tray, I generally keep the U3 app but delete all the pre-installet software.
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What sort of security consideration :rolleyes: ? I treat the U3 crap like buying a hard drive with an O/S installed. Format the sucker down to the bare bits, because I don't know where it's been.
Software Zen:
delete this;I agree, for my own personal USB drives I format them as well. I am talking about other people using a U3 enabled device on one of my clients machines. Refer to this article: http://www.edgeblog.net/2006/defending-against-u3-switchblade/[^]
'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control,mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country! from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' - Jay Leno
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I agree with you. Although I do like the "Eject" button that is added to the system tray, I generally keep the U3 app but delete all the pre-installet software.
Jack Knife wrote:
Eject
I have found a few devices that do not seem to like the 'Eject' option from the right click context menu in explorer and only respond to the stop command from the system try icon. Odd...
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I agree with you. Although I do like the "Eject" button that is added to the system tray, I generally keep the U3 app but delete all the pre-installet software.
Eject? bah. just pull the thing out when you're done.
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Eject? bah. just pull the thing out when you're done.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa You know, to be honest, most of the time I really do that (for shame) but I have had cases where it really does cause you to loose data unless you eject it. Vista seems to be MUCH better at this than XP was.
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I have used USB thumbdrives for years as have most. I have always disliked the U3 'smart' technology and have always uninstalled off any drive that I had. Recently I bought a new 16GB Sandisk cruzer that had the U3 crap loaded on it, but this time I did some research on just how it works instead of just deleting it. If I am reading the information correctly, this is a major security consideration. What do you think?
'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control,mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country! from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' - Jay Leno
U3 is definitely a security concern - but not for the thumb drive owner, for the PC owner - so deleting it of your drive doesn't do squat - but if you lock down your PC to prevent U3 running then it's useless having it on your thumb drive. I like the convenience of U3 scrambling my drive in case I lost it - and I have yet to find a PC unable to access it - which means it's a good job I'm not a baddie, I guess!
If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
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U3 is definitely a security concern - but not for the thumb drive owner, for the PC owner - so deleting it of your drive doesn't do squat - but if you lock down your PC to prevent U3 running then it's useless having it on your thumb drive. I like the convenience of U3 scrambling my drive in case I lost it - and I have yet to find a PC unable to access it - which means it's a good job I'm not a baddie, I guess!
If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')
I agree that deleting it off of the drive it useless. The question comes down to a simple one. How can you prevent U3 from executing within the enterprise other than buying Endpoint security programs?
'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control,mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country! from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' - Jay Leno
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I agree, for my own personal USB drives I format them as well. I am talking about other people using a U3 enabled device on one of my clients machines. Refer to this article: http://www.edgeblog.net/2006/defending-against-u3-switchblade/[^]
'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control,mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country! from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?' - Jay Leno
That article links to a detailled account of how to hack into a bank easily. This is almost information we shouldn't have.... http://www.darkreading.com/security/perimeter/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208803634[^] I don't know about the integrity of "Darkreading.com" so maybe open at own risk?
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I agree with you. Although I do like the "Eject" button that is added to the system tray, I generally keep the U3 app but delete all the pre-installet software.
If you hit 'Eject' does it come flying out? I realise that timing would be crucial but that sounds like the kind of usb loiterer that I need in my armoury!
"If you reward everyone, there will not be enough to go around, so you offer a reward to one in order to encourage everyone." Mei Yaochen in the 'Doing Battle' section of Sun Tzu's: Art of War. .