Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs

Re:Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs by ChuckMcM on Thursday October 02, 2014 @01:36PM (#8401925)

Well you could do this on the second keyboard that was plugged in. In normal use my machine has an HID keyboard already attached, so attaching a second one would both be unusual, and the first one would still be around to confirm or deny the input.

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Re:Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs by freehunter on Thursday October 02, 2014 @01:52PM (#8402037)

Until one day you see a hilarious Reddit post that makes you spit out your coffee and your keyboard stops working. Then you plug in a new one and have no way of making it work.

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Re:Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs by makomk on Thursday October 02, 2014 @02:18PM (#8402180)

Unplug the broken one first, so that when you plug the new one in the OS knows that it doesn't make sense to display a prompt because there's no keyboard to confirm it with? You'd probably want to do that anyway if you'd spilt coffee on it.

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Re:Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs by duaneb on Thursday October 02, 2014 @03:23PM (#8402555)

Small price to pay for usb security. Also, if your only keyboard stops working, wouldn't it accept the next keyboard by default because there isn't one connected?

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