drn423 Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Hi, I am new here and have gone through a bunch of posts but havent fond the exact answers to my questions. If they are are stupid or answers are obvious and around, pls just help me out or direct me what post I may look at if that is possible. I want to find out how the U3 (sandisk 2G) flash drive works. . . . Will it work on any Windows XP, 2000 etc. or does the computer have to have a special U3 drive? Do I put it in the same place I would put any flash drive? Are passwords/secret info stored on automatically when I put the USB in? If it is autorun/not what exactly does this mean? If cookies/private data are deleted will passwords still show up on the drive? Pls get back to me on anything you can answer. Again I apologize if these questions are amateur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 I don't have an U3 thumbdrive. 1) U3 works only with Windows, 2000 SP4, XP and Vista are supported 2) Yes, it has a standard usb jack 3) I don't think so, only if you have an encrypted partition with a portable program on it 4) I'm sorry, I don't know. 5) I think yes. For encryption, I recommend TrueCrypt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drn423 Posted October 26, 2007 Author Share Posted October 26, 2007 3) I don't think so, only if you have an encrypted partition with a portable program on it...what does this mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 I think U3 brings a proprietary encryption system with it, so you can create a "secure" partition protected by a password. And portable program, some programs are saving some data not on the thumbdrive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drn423 Posted October 26, 2007 Author Share Posted October 26, 2007 Ok, so I have the U3 drive. What do I do to it to make it have switchblade? Once that is all installed on my computer, how can I put it in someone else's to extract info? (simply put it in, is there something that must be done with it? etc.) Any help would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Sorry, i'cant help you, as i said im still using thumbdrive 1.0 ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drn423 Posted October 26, 2007 Author Share Posted October 26, 2007 Thanks for responding, if anyone knows pls help..or steer me in right direction of where to look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trustme Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 See GonZors Switchblade: Instructions are here http://www.users.on.net/~simmo_89/switchblade/tutorial.html Enjoy :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drn423 Posted October 27, 2007 Author Share Posted October 27, 2007 great thanks...and just wanted to make sure, the usb needs to be in right when i download payload etc.? And once process is done how does the switchblade work? I just plug it and it extracts on any computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trustme Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Yep follow the directions on the page. You select settings (last step in directions), then next time you plug it into a pc it'll autorun and dump the information to the drive/ do the stuff you told it to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drn423 Posted October 28, 2007 Author Share Posted October 28, 2007 ok thanks...and does this work on vista?...ive read different things.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trustme Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Ah Yes, I should have clarified that. The Universal Customizer, for one reason or another, usually can't see the u3 drive on Vista. So you have to do the initial setup on a XP machine, and using a vm won't work because it doesn't see the drives correctly. After you do the initial setup, you'll be able to stick the drive into a Vista machine and be able to both configure (I change settings a lot based on what I want to do) it and attempt to run the payload. If you're configuring with SBConfig, you'll find that Vista will pop up a message saying it didn't install correctly... because it didn't install anything... so just click the "This software installed correctly option." If you're attempting to run the payload on a Vista machine, Microsoft wasn't totally full of it when they said security is better, so some parts of the payload may return empty sections in the log. A good number of them still work correctly though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drn423 Posted October 28, 2007 Author Share Posted October 28, 2007 Thanks for all the info. Im having trouble opening the files due to error. I will have to try on a different computer when I get a hold of one...just wondering and this may be a weird question. But is there anyway I could buy a switchblade? One that is ready to be used or somewhere where I could find someone to make sure mine is set up correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drn423 Posted October 29, 2007 Author Share Posted October 29, 2007 also...i was looking at the max damage option it seemed like less steps, maybe would work better on my computer? is there a difference between the two? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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