dianajhunter Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 I picked up a virus from the students’ computers in an inner city school. Therefore I reformatted my Corsair Voyager flash drive. I thought that would solve the problem. However, on my PC (Windows XP Pro 32 bits) when using the open a file using “programs on the device” I get the error: Windows cannot find ‘JiDAK.eXE. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.” Then it has crashed and I am unable to open the drive. Anti-virus software got rid of jidak.scr but I still run into problems with this JiDAK.eXE How do I get rid of this error? Some people thought maybe I deleted one of the programs used to open files on this flash drive. If so, how can I get any needed files? Please move this post if this is in the wrong forum. Thanks so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Could be multiple things, but first: Did you do a FULL format on the drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dianajhunter Posted March 6, 2010 Author Share Posted March 6, 2010 Yes, the full formatting wiped out everything on the drive. However, I still have to copy some of those same files from school and have to use the flash drive for that. I have run the flash drive through anti-virus again and there does not seem to be any virus to be removed. That does not stop this problem. The anti-virus program did flag a related file called jidak.scr so I had the anti-virus program to get rid of that one but it does not recognize the jiDAk.EXe as a virus so it will not remove it. Is the jiDAk.EXe a program built in to the flash drive to open files? I have searched for more on this latter file but did not find it as a file that I needed to download. Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 jiDAk.EXe sounds like a virus name. DELETE IT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dianajhunter Posted March 6, 2010 Author Share Posted March 6, 2010 Thanks. I deleted it and that looks like it works. When I went to delete it, I could not find it as a file. I think it was a virus and the perpetrator stuck JiDAk.eXE as part of the code for autorun.inf I found that I had 3 instances of the JiDAk.eXE in each of the files labeled autorun.inf This is because I have to copy my students' art files on to my flash drive each week to grade them. I will alert the school techie and see if he can delete these files so this will not happen again. Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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