"L. V. Lammert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Watch out for USB sticks!! Many now are coming with 'U3' - a piece of
> crap piece of s/w that will try to crash your machine whenever you
> insert it.

oh, so that's what happened when I put my new 4GB USB stick into a
Windows machine.  On OpenBSD, it just mounted like regular (but
looking at messages right now it actually shows up as an emulated CD
plus the regular drive), while on Windows it went through several
minutes of things 'just happening' and requiring a reboot.  

> Here's a link to the removal page from U3:
>
>         http://www.u3.com/uninstall/

ah, thanks for the link.  

-- 
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