Can't import or copy P2 cards. Please Help...

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newsbykko

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I'm very confused by this problem and after 3 months of shooting my documentary the most important shoot is tomorrow....

First off. I have been using P2 for 2 years and all my gear worked up until yesterday.

Problem:

I can not copy or import data from both my P2 cards.
If i use Panasonic software I can "ingest" the data to my HD, but I can not import into Premier.
If I try to copy the "contents" folder it only copies 19.2MGB and then gives me an error.
Premiere can not import the footage from the HD or the P2 cards.

The footage all looks fine on the Panasonic P2 viewer.

I have tried two different laptops, both of which worked fine for the last year and yesterday.

I'm afraid to re-format the P2 cards since I don't know if the data on the HD is really okay..

Hope someone can help....

Kris
 
I forgot.
Both my laptops are IBM Thinkpads and have CS3 with all P2 drivers and worked fine. For the last two years I have been able to import and edit P2 just fine. Now nothing....

Kris
 
Well we found the problem and its very strange..

Basically one of our laptops was infected with a very vicious Trojan virus that infected all our P2 cards and was able to install itself from the P2 cards every time we tried to copy a fake "contents" folder.

Here is how it worked.

The virus infects a computer from some place and then installs itself on any external media Hard Drive or in our case all our P2 card.
Now it gets fun. Once in the P2 card the virus makes a FAKE copy of the "contents" folder with a copy of the virus in it and changes the real "contents" folders properties to "not visible". (Obviously if this was some other media IE: HD or USB drive it would copy some other file. I’m sure this is not only for P2 cards)

So, now when I went to copy my "contents" folder with my P2 footage all I saw was the FAKE folder with the invisible virus. Not knowing I copied the folder to my Hard Drive.
Once I opened CS3 I noticed that I obviously could not import any of the footage and the "contents" folder since it was only 19.9Mgb as opposed to the normal 16G.

Only after I changed the folder options to "show hidden files" did I see BOTH "contents" files and realize one was fake.

We scanned the P2 cards and laptop with AVAST anti virus and found everything infected with a Trojan virus. The fake "contents" folder had the virus and a self install program.

The shocking part is even after we FORMATED the card in the HVX the fake "contents" file was still there! Only AVAST was able to delete the fake "contents" file of the infected P2 cards.

We don’t know where this virus came from but it has done tremendous amounts of damage.

Beware that this is out there and simple putting your P2 card in a infected laptop will cause it to get infected. Nether Norton anti virus or Spybot saw the virus.

To the benefit of all the Apple people out there our G5 saw both "contents" folders and the virus did not effect it.

Fun day at the office....................

Kris
 
Wow- that sucks! Was that specifically aimed at P2 or the contents of any media attached to the infected PC?

-Noah
 
Wow- that sucks! Was that specifically aimed at P2 or the contents of any media attached to the infected PC?

-Noah
 
NoahK said:
Wow- that sucks! Was that specifically aimed at P2 or the contents of any media attached to the infected PC?

-Noah
Click to expand...

I started an other post as a warning for everyone regarding this virus.

The virus is not P2 specific. It installs itself on any media IE: Hard drive, USB drive, Sony SD cards ext, ext.

Really bad bug..... Still trying to recover lost footage form infected HD.

Kris
 
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