One might not realise it at first, but it is easy to jeopardise ones security simply by failing to stay up to date with the latest security memo. Ah - well that would pay for those free lunches so to speak. Besides, some "free" products are actually used as a loss-leading funnel into the same companies rather expensive pay-per use product. "Most well known" by no means demonstrates fitness for purpose. The easiest thing would be to have a DOS installation and fdisk.Ĭlick to expand.Hi, there are always those who won't see much value in something, but everyone knows there is no such thing as a free lunch. I've tried FreeDos and Parted Magic but can't get it done with autorun. I now want to create a similar one, but then a USB stick and it is enough to erase / clear existing partitions. Then we were able to give the computer to voluntary organizations. Then everything was erased again and then created a single partition. Wrote files to full volume on both partitions. Then split the volume into two partitions. When I was working in a municipality, within healthcare, with security (information with high privacy) a few years ago, I created a DOS floppy disk that erased the entire C: volume and then wrote small files that filled the entire partition. I want to do this because I have privacy information that is only for me. This USB stick will then, upon approval, erase everything on your computer's hard drives. That said, is an awesome site, and I never leave home without my 4GB flash drive, which has the only browser I ever use, as well as ZSNES and Nestopia, a full office suite, and more.I am looking for a (simple) way to create a USB stick that I can let my wife plug in and just start the computer (linuxOS) and then there will be a message (just in case a mistake happened) where the 'user' can choose to cancel. With 256MB flash drives at a nearly disposable price, it's a blossoming risk! A hacker can basically stroll up, drop a CD or USB drive into the system, and walk away.leaving his malicious code destroying your data.
If you trust what you put in, and don't leave your system unattended where malicious users can access it, then you're not really at much risk.īut for any reasonably public computer, it's a very bad idea. Having auto run enabled for ANY device (CD-ROM or removeable media) is a pretty large security hole.
Scarier still is that U3 drives CAN auto run programs and code without any input from the user! There are numerous tutorials on this across the Internet, and while it's slightly technically inclined, it's simple enough that a great number of people could make a drive which when inserted wreaks real havoc on the system it's plugged into. What looks like an entry to run Portable Firefox, actually executes malicious code). Thankfully, it's not fully automatic in starting programs, but a malicious program could be triggered by spoofing a legitimate entry (i.e.
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