On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:54:59PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > "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. >
Is it possible to remove it with fdisk/disklabel/newfs_msdos, or is it more insidious than that? -- Mark
