ea data. sf

[kccheng]

the other day I was asked to check a SD card, and I put it in my computer, I thought it's safe that I have disabled autorun already.
the card had a autorun.inf in it, I formatted the card anyway.
back to my work with my cards, a autorun.inf is in my card too! OMG
after scan and cleaning the virus, windows explorer show hidden files option can't be saved. after searching for a while i fixed that too.
now my computer create a hidden "ea data. sf" in my cards, which looks like OS/2 extanded attrib, but it's XP, I have never seen one.
then i deleted a file from my embedded system device, and take the card back to windows for scanning. chkdsk say the extended attrib has a invalid entry due to file deletion.. something like that. I don't remember this exactly.
so do XP really create such a file, or is it just another virus? I can't find any useful information about this file on the net.

[truk]

I had a similar problem on some flash drives about 1/2 a year ago. I had just installed media player 11 and it had decided that my flash drives were intended for music and it would get ready to sync. Closing/disabling media player fixed it. Check to make sure you don't have something deigned for MP3 players or portable media devices installed that is automatically hijacking your SD cards.

Hope this helps!
Truk

[kccheng]

thanks. i will check this.