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Panda usb vaccine not working on 24H2
I've been using Panda usb vaccine for years and find it very useful (and reassuring), especially when buying used notebooks and netbooks that could be infected. It worked in 23H2 (despite giving a shell notification pop up) but got removed when I upgraded to 24H2. Reinstalled it and it didn't show up or work. Tried reinstalling it in Windows 8 compatibility mode and it still didn't show up or work.
Has anyone managed to get it working in 24H2? I am maybe a bit OCD about usb sticks but started using it after a nasty trojan jumped onto a usb stick from a used laptop and then jumped straight onto the next computer it was installed on (albeit antivirus did block it, but not straight away!).
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Windows security features (like driver signing, UAC, and device access policies) might prevent older tools from functioning properly.
Hi Winsty,
On Windows 11 the risk the Panda tool tries to protect from is already disabled by default, autorun.inf will not be executed.
If you want to check, this command will check the state of the setting, by default set to 0xFF (255) disabling Autorun on all devicesreg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" /v NoDriveTypeAutoRunHope this helps,
