Virtual CD running from USB drive. HELP!

Ok, so any Canon Pixma MP160 buyer would know that they give a free 512 Trek Thumbdrive USB drive free.. but it also has a stupid feature. if you insert the usb drive, a virtual cd drive pops up and installs the crappiest Anti-Virus i've ever seen. ( its size is only 12mb BTW)

is there any way i can remove this stupid cd drive like partition from my usb drive? disabling Autorun on each and every pc i want to use this sub drive on is not an answer..
and formating it doesnt help.

PuhLEEZE help!

yyyyyolk Nice dude title was intresteing it made me click the thread!

Disable Auto-Run and Auto-Play of U3 Smart Drives Launchpad » My Digital Life

will this help??

How about just formatting it?

Nice article on U3 drives ms_mahu. Btw, instead of editing the registry to disable autorun on USB drives, I would suggest that one use TweakUI for WinXP. It's small and hence easy to download and saves one from the fuss of editing the registry.

He doesn't want to disable autorun on every box, and formatting doesn't help....

Firstly confirm if its a U3 device. If it is, there should be a U3 menu allowing you to "uninstall" the U3 virtual drive platform (atleast there is one on mine) and would even allow you to disable programs from auto-launching.

If you format it, autorun will not be able to run said AV from the drive seeing as how the AV installer will not exist on the drive.

Firstly, its NOT a U3 device.

Secondly, regarding the "formatting". How will i format it? when i insert teh USB drive.. TWO drives open. one USB drive, one (virtual) cd. i can format only the USB drive na! the CD still remains as such!!!