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Perhaps one should be cautious of flash drives

stealthy @stealthy (8181) • United States 26 Aug 10

Be very careful if you find a flash at an Internet cafe, say or somewhere else like school, etc. There could be something malicious on it that would infect your computer to send personal data to someone on the Internet. This could...

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protecting flash drives

angelroseanne @angelroseanne (84) • Philippines 16 Nov 09

Question: Is there any software available today that can protect our flash drives? Like it requires password when you try to copy files to your flash drives, so that we can avoid viruses that are copied to our flash drives...

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U3 technology

CarlKnittel @CarlKnittel (692) • United States 29 Sep 08

I LOVE MY NEW THUMB DRIVE I've beeen wanting one of these things for years and when Wal*Mart's back to school sale included a 2gig thumb drive from SanDisk under $13 I snapped it up. When I got it home I found out it was a U3...

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Flash Drives Replacing Briefcases?

worldwise1 @worldwise1 (14885) • United States 27 Aug 08

I read this claim in a recent ad: Flash Drives are now replacing briefcases in the business world. These tiny devices do hold an incredible amount of information and take up hardly any space. I can see where they would be much...

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I went and finally got myself a flash drive or pen drive, after years of first

suspenseful @suspenseful (40192) • Canada 18 Apr 08

putting my documents on those big five inch drives, then those A drives, and then Cds and finally DVDs. I missed the zip drives. They were too expensive. So when I decided to cash in my Future Shop gift card for a pen drive, that...

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do flash drives / memory sticks have expiration??

sebab315 @sebab315 (108) • Philippines 3 Mar 07

a friend of mine recently told me that flash drives cannot be relied on for long periods of time coz they have expirations..data get deleted after a certain period of time. is this true??

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Do you still use Floppies??

nishant_022 @nishant_022 (395) • India 16 Feb 07

Hey guys!! Do you remember a few years ago, we used a highly unreliable thing called a Floppy?? :-)Do you still use those 1.4mb diskettes with much better and more reliable storage devices like CDs, DVDs and Flash Drives around?

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