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Trailing files?

Started by gerber44 , Mar 13 2013 05:20 PM

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gerber44

Posted 13 March 2013 - 05:20 PM

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I plugged in a flash drive and then went to boot up my computer. On start up it said needs to check disk for consistency. Then it started scanning the files on my flash drive. I am worried that there is a virus or a hacker of some sort trying to find my ip address. I read it saying something about trailing files, which sounds like someone or something is tracking a file on my flash drive? I immediately unplugged it, before it could finish. Any thoughts?

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Posted 16 March 2013 - 10:53 PM

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It's not malware. Next time let it scan the thumbdrive, it's just running chkdsk. If it completes without error, you're good to go. If it keeps finding errors you need a new thumbdrive.