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General => Tech Chat => Topic started by: Mr. Analog on October 19, 2023, 07:09:25 AM

Title: ValiDrive
Post by: Mr. Analog on October 19, 2023, 07:09:25 AM
Ever wanted to check your thumb drive for errors or malware? There's a tool for that

https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm
Title: Re: ValiDrive
Post by: Darren Dirt on October 25, 2023, 12:00:49 PM
Good ol' Steve Gibson!

Cool that he's still around:

https://www.grc.com/news.htm

QuoteGRC's Corporate & Steve's Personal
Blog, Twitter & RSS Feeds

Six ways for you to stay in the loop about what's happening here.


Dragged Kicking & Screaming into the 21st Century


They said it would never happen, and they were almost right.

But it's true. GRC and Steve now both have individual Twitter accounts, blogs, and RSS feeds. And it appears to be a good thing.

And speaking of "being in denial about how change is inevitable until finally giving in"...
https://nitter.net/SGgrc/status/1716910106754101621
...VBScript will soon be gone (and that kinda hits me in the feelz -- glad I feel comfortable in Node and Python)
Title: Re: ValiDrive
Post by: Darren Dirt on October 25, 2023, 12:14:33 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on October 19, 2023, 07:09:25 AMEver wanted to check your thumb drive for errors or malware? There's a tool for that

https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm

On topic: YIKES some of these screenshots scare me, as in they they make me scared to test my own USB drives...

https://nitter.net/SGgrc/status/1698756990959550949

Title: Re: ValiDrive
Post by: Thorin on October 25, 2023, 02:47:22 PM
I think the more eye-opening fact there is that USB drives labeled as 1TB or even 2TB actually only have 64GB of storage inside them, and then some mechanism to intentionally hoodwink the OS into thinking there's more storage. Like, that's an intentional fraud.
Title: Re: ValiDrive
Post by: Lazybones on October 26, 2023, 10:34:48 AM
Quote from: Thorin on October 25, 2023, 02:47:22 PMI think the more eye-opening fact there is that USB drives labeled as 1TB or even 2TB actually only have 64GB of storage inside them, and then some mechanism to intentionally hoodwink the OS into thinking there's more storage. Like, that's an intentional fraud.

This has been happening for YEARS now.. Used to be an Aliexpress thing then it became common on Amazon.

Even worse are FAKE Samsung EVO NVME drives now.