Bought an mp3 player off ebay... and it had a worm on it! I think my antivirus software stopped it though, and I've now (1) disabled autorun (hell, you actually have to edit the registry to do that on Windows XP? That's insane!) and (2) formatted the thing, so I think I've got rid of it. I found out how to check for hidden files (I know it was dir -s on real DOS but it's dir /ah on the command shell in XP, for some reason) and it seems to be gone. Something I read suggested that formatting didn't necessarily get rid of an autorun file but I can at least say that there doesn't seem to be anything there. And thanks to the magic of antivirus software it seems there's no harm done. Still pretty annoying though.
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