"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. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.