Anime Icon appears in Devices and Printers - Malware? !

heat84 said:

MWB didn't find anything other than 3 false positives that were there before this started. Including the one that that thread you linked to is about. My PC isn't acting strange so I don't think its malware or a virus. I'll ask about this somewhere else. I know some people there know about Anime. Maybe that will be a clue. Or that could be just some random character.

I just put in a different flash drive and a different driver is loaded and that icon doesn't appear. Its 1Gb and made by Ativa.

Mine isn't acting up either and i'm pretty sure it's unlikely i'd get infected in the first place.

Let us know what those people say about anime

So, Is this something i can safely ignore or do i need to get my finger out?

Nice avatar btw swarfega

It's still the same :)

I haven't used an activation crack on my system so it can't be that (see my sig ). I used an unfamiliar USB drive around a week ago, maybe hacku is on to something with that?????

heat84 said:

Here's another thread at a Microsoft.com forum.

That looks a little better, good find Heat84 :)

It just seems to be a metadata hardware ID mixup. When you plug in a device to W7 or Vista, it checks the device info against a database and downloads the appropriate metadata which is supposed to be submitted by the manufacturer. In our flash drive case, Windows thinks our flash drives are something else.

Seems plausible. I went ahead and deleted C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Device Metadata\dmrccache\en-US\d42472c3-a173-455f-8fc5-640e344597b1\ anyway and so far i've not had any problems or seen it again. I'll try and get my hands on that USB drive again to see if it is indeed the explanation above.