Memory Stick Pen Issue

Hi guys,

I just received a Memory Stick Pen 16GB which I bought on Ebay, and after I plugged it in my USB drive, I copied some files in it just to try it. I then tried to open the pen's folder (drive H from My Computer to see my copied files, and all of a sudden, AVG popped up with a Resident Shield Alert saying "THREAT DETECTED - Virus Found VBS/Agent" in the filename "H:\Administrator.vbs". The threat was reported to be "Detected on Open". Then, AVG showed the usual options to either "Remove Threats" or "Ignore". I tried both. At the same time, a Windows Script Host alert also popped up saying "Loading Script H:\Administrator.vbs failed(access is Denied)".

When I tried to "Ignore" the alert from AVG and tried to access the folder again, both AVG and windows kept on giving me the 2 same messages continuously which I mentioned above. On the other hand, whenever I "Removed the Threat to the Virus Vault" and tried to open the memory stick pen folder from My Computer, the message "Can not find script file "H:Administrator.vbs" was reported by Windows Script Host. When I then tried to restore my file from AVG Virus Vault, AVG reported continuously that a Threat was Detected.

However, strangely enough, I managed to access and copy the files on my memory stick by right click on the memory stick folder(drive H: ) and select either Open or Explore. The folder was only reported to be access denied or gave me the problems as described above whenever I double clicked the relevant folder from My Computer. Having said this I still feel that the problem is not solved and I'm very concerned whether it truly contains a virus or not.

Also, it's very important to mention, that when I accessed the folder for the first time, there were no files in it. The file "Administrator.vbs" appeared for the frst time when I first removed it in AVG's virus vault and then restored it. It's now physically there and is a file of 34kb size.

Also, I'd like to mention that about 2 weeks ago I bought a memory stick pen from the same seller with same specs which is 100% identical to this one with no problems at all.

What can I do? Is the threat reported by AVG a false/positive? Is it a real virus?
Do you think that if I format my memory stick pen will solve the problem?

Finally, I'm attaching 2 images showing the different alerts I'm getting all the time which I talked about earlier.

Just to let you know, my system runs on 1.5GB Ram with Windows XP.

Thanks a lot for any kind of help and assistance.

Best Regards,

Corolla315

 

Hi there mate AVG does have a habbit of being "PARANOID" and does pickup on Alien files that could be a relates virus acting file but did it come with or without a driver cd? Or have you tried another PC? Personally i would have formatted it from new anyway just to get started it is a possibilty that it came with Manufacturer drivers on it iI have purchased one before and found it had HIDDEN files on it so when iI pushed it into the USB slot it install software etc that i had no idea was there!

 

Hi Biddy,

Thanks for your reply. Actually it didn't come with a manufacturer's CD and I haven't tried my "new" problematic memory stick on another PC yet - but I will do that the first thing in the morning on my PC at work. However I can tell you that as I informed you in my 1st post, I already bought an identical stick 2 weeks ago from the same seller and I use it daily without any problems. I use it all the time on this machine and on other machines with no problems.I used it also today to check and my "new" stick is giving me problems all the time whilst the "old" one is problem-free.

Thanks and regards,

Corolla

 

That is strange but i have had an unbranded one at work and we took it out of the packet and installed it then that had an error then showed as an 8MB memory stick and will not let us format it and it wont let us copy to it so i asume it was a dodgy product...

 

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your reply. Sorry about the late reply but yesterday after I submitted my last post I had to sleep as I had a long day ahead today at work and so unfortunaley I hadn't the time yesterday to reply but only today...but anyway... things turned out to be lucky for me at least...

This morning I took the pen drive at work to try on my machine there and as soon as I plugged the pen drive in the USB drive, Mcafee immediately alerted me too about the threat but with the difference that it was able to disinfect it as well and fortunately my pen drive is now clean and the problem is now solved. I can use it even at home without any problems. The problem is gone.

AVG was able to detect it only and I didn't manage to solve the problem yesterday as I use AVG Free Edition on my home's machine.

Apparently the "good" guy who sold me the pen drive put also this Visual Basic Script file on the pen drive which contained some kind of virus/malware/trojan with the intention maybe to get access to personal data on my PC. The worrying thing is that he's a power seller and he's selling tens of thses pen drives everyday!!


Thanks a lot anyway for your time and assistance.

Best Regards,

Corolla315