Weird Flashdrive Glitch

[Captain Scar]

So recently I've gotten into the portableapps.com platform and putting portable programs on my flashdrive. Today, after putting my flashdrive in my laptop, every single file on my flashdrive has become a shortcut to the cmd, including folders. I just need to figure out why this happened and how I can fix it.

[okamikk]

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you shouldn't download things from suspicious sites...

[Captain Scar]

If you'd kindly take about 3 seconds to google portableapps, or search the forums, or re-read my post, you would find:

1. I didn't download anything suspicious

2. Portablapps.com is a safe website, which has been pointed out and recommended on these forums.

Here, let me google that for ya

[okamikk]

I dunno... that site is looking mighty suspicious...

Meh, I kid.

I don't know, maybe a virus piggybacked a ride on something you downloaded, or maybe you just dropped your flash drive?

that is all I can think of.

[Captain Scar]

Well, I don't know how it happened, but I got my stuff back with a data recovery program. Every time you clicked one of the cmd shortcuts it opened a program called oquaosocep.exe or something like that. It ended up in one of my folders after I recovered my stuff. The icon for it was like a triangle in a blue bubble with a 3 in the top-right corner that was also in a blue bubble.

[Melfice]

That sounds like virus behaviour.

Remember what program you downloaded last on your flashdrive and contact the website you downloaded it from. It may not be that, but better safe than sorry.

Also, full virus scan of any computer that flashdrive's been in contact with. Safe mode, you probably know the works.

Do it twice to be safe, with two different antivirus programs. Avast!'s a good idea, and whatever program sounds good as well. AVG? I don't know. Avast!'s always been my antivirus to go with.

Wipe the flashdrive and reformat. If that's too much hassle, burn it and bury its remains at a crossroads (that bit's optional), get a new one.

[Captain Scar]

Yeah I recovered all of my stuff and Wiped/Reformatted it. Then I put my stuff back on. I just wonder what that weird program is. It's a good thing avast! quarantines anything that starts on a flashdrive until it scans it.