Panda USB Vaccine with NTFS Support
June 18th, 2009
First off many thanks to the hundreds of thousands of users who have downloaded, used and given us feedback on Panda USB Vaccine. Not only is it allowing us to improve this free utility for the community, it also helps protect users a little better from spreading malware infections.
Finally Panda USB Vaccine is out of beta and version 1.0.0.50 is here. Some of the most notable improvements are the following:
- Support for vaccinating NTFS drives. This uses a completely different technique than the vaccination of FAT/FAT32 drives.
- Executing USBVaccine.exe launches an installer which allows you to configure whether you want USBVaccine to start automatically with Windows.
- Configuration option during setup to hide the tray icon.
- Configuration option during setup to automatically vaccinate any new USB drives inserted into the PC.
- Fixed bug on PC shutdown when USBVaccine was running in the background (Vista).
- Other bug fixes reported by users on certain types of USB drives.
Some screenshots of the new Panda USB Vaccine:
As always you can get it directly from download.com:
Categories: Utils
Hi,
this software is really good.
Also i will want to know if does have updates.
How is it done, and manually or automatically?
Thank you.
Daniel
@Joe, thanks for your comments. Unfortunately even if we put some text inside the vaccinated autorun.inf saying it is from Panda, you will not be able to read it as you will not be able to open it.
@Cecil & @Daniel, it does not update automatically as it doesn’t really need updates. Check or subscribe to our blog for any new versions that may be released in the future.
@chas, if your drive is FAT look at some comment above or search around for how to remove vaccination using WinHex. If its NTFS, there’s no way to remove it other than with a format.
@Dan, there’s no point in having an icon defined in the vaccinated autorun.inf file as Windows cannot read it (and therefore cannot show the icon).
Thank you. I LOVE PANDA !!! Make please more free utilites
Thank You For Anti inf for usb
Could you set the dummy autorun.inf file’s size to 0 bytes, to make seen, that it is empty?
Hi guys! It’s a good vaccination, however, if you want to erase autorun.inf file, use any LiveCD with Linux, I’ve used LinuxMint and I was able to erase it using root login. But, better keep it!
i got the same problem as jose luis. On installation, i get the message,
“unable to execute file:
schtasks.exe
CreateProcess failed; code 2.
The system cannot find the file specified.”
I opened a commandline window and typed ’schtasks’ and i got the following message,
“’schtasks’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.”
How will this affect the function of Panda USB Vaccine?
@winston, until you can fix the scheduler you can run it manually in the meatime. Simply execute %Program Files%\Panda USB Vaccine\USBVaccine.exe manually to vaccinate each USB drive you insert into the PC.
i installed the Panda Vaccine several weeks ago and mistakenly vaccinnated my computer. Unfotunately my computer no longer recognizes my ipod classic, meaning I am unable to ad or remove songs from my ipod! it would have been nice to know this before I made such a large mistake.
How do I corrct this problem?
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@Rod, simply install Panda USB Vaccine again and from the program remove the vaccination of your computer.
the download link leads to version 1.0.1.4 Where we can download the latest version 1.0.0.5? And Furthermore, Mr Pedro this one very nice… do you have standalone AV that give RT protection while plugged?
I can’t find the 1.0.0.5 version. Anyone got a copy? Pls upload and share it with us..
@rahimhd, version 1.0.1.4 is already available. Please check http://research.pandasecurity.com/archive/Panda-USB-Vaccine-_2D00_-Version-1.0.1.4.aspx.
You might want to subscribe to the blog’s RSS to get notified of new version releases.
It works fine, but today my antivirus program (Avast) informs:
C:\Program Files\Panda USB Vaccine\USBVaccine.exe — Trojan Win32:Delf-MZG [Trj]
I have sent to Avast message about false reaction.
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Your USB will get infected if you connected to an infected machine, but they WILL NOT infect anything nor the virus will run. The virus copies itselft to the USB but the INF file WONT change since it is protected.
This is best for USB Drive.I like this.
This is a radical approach. I have formated my USB drives and they still contain the infection going around. It launches a DOS exe that practically renders all current protection useless. That includes Norton IS 2009, Avast!, AVG, and Windows Defender. It will not let any new antivirus from being installed nor run any pre-installed scanners from executing such as Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware. I will try this and report. Thanks.