Weird issue with USB stick

mordeith

A customer where I work was using one of public computers and had two USB sticks inserted. Both were accessible but then he said when he tried to access one of the sticks later all the files were different. See screen shot below.
None of the files can be opened or even moved from the USB stick. Luckily it was a backup so a format can be done but I was wondering in anyone had come across something like this before. A virus scan came up with nothing.

CreepingDeath

I'd say he didn't eject the USB disks properly before removing them.
Caused some disk corruption.

mordeith

CreepingDeath wrote: »

I'd say he didn't eject the USB disks properly before removing them.
Caused some disk corruption.

That was my first thought as well. Oddly enough one of the files is over 2gb in size, even though he never put anything other than word documents on it

johndoe99

the filenames are being shown as unicode, that's odd. The modified dates are from 73 years in the future.

mordeith

johndoe99 wrote: »

the filenames are being shown as unicode, that's odd. The modified dates are from 73 years in the future.

I hadn't even noticed the dates!

Overheal

Do you still have a copy of this rogue data?

mathepac

It's Jerry Garcia! In 2085 he'll be Dead for 90 years, Dead but Grateful, sprinkling notes of gratitude on USB sticks.

mordeith

Overheal wrote: »

Do you still have a copy of this rogue data?

not sure. I'll check with the guy who owns it next week

jay-me

This happened to me on a Chinese usb stick that read as 8gb on the computer but any more than 2gb messed it up.

Skerries

these guys might be able to help

yoyo

Check the USB key with this, could be a fake USB key

Nick