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Re: Can you tell when a USB drive is plugged into a computer?

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Yes when you go to My Computer it should show under Devices with Removable Storage.

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Re: Can you tell when a USB drive is plugged into a computer?

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What if it is not a device with removable storage? ;)
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Im talking from a Hypothetical cheating standpoint.
Not that I would ever do it
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Everything you described certainly is possible, but unlikely to be implemented in the environment I assume you are talking about.
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Re: Can you tell when a USB drive is plugged into a computer?

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I know that at GM they have on their workstations have disabled USB write functions. You can completely disable USB if you wanted. Would make the computer rather useless if you ask me.

If you're talking about checking to see if someone has plugged a thumb drive into the computer, check the logs. Most of the time you should have an entry as the Auto-Run function should have run, and the drive was "installed" so a log about hardware install/uninstall should be found in there.

Good luck.

P.S. Can't help you on what log, as I'm under Ubuntu at the moment.
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The hypothetical situation went well, but the info was barely helpful
EDIT: THe usb info not yalls
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