I just plugged in my usb stick, now I have a CD icon on my desktop from China Telecom Broadband. It contains an autorun.ini and other things to set itself up on a Win computer I suppose.
I must have got it from the office computer without my knowledge.

I can't see it on my stick. A right click does not have the trash option illuminated. gparted does not show a partition for it, but it could be hiding in the San-Disk part of the stick. That is apparently unremoveable and unseeable with gparted.

How to get rid of it??

Hi there,

yes, there are these dual- or sometimes triple-function USB devices. Very often they announce themselves as a CD drive, just like yours, to provide some software for their actual purpose, and then they're switched and suddenly claim they're a wireless broadband modem. Some of them have a third function, which is USB mass storage.

Typically, the software on the CD portion of the device is for Windows, so as a Linux user it's not useful at all for you.
But there's a package called usb-modeswitch that automatically disables the CD function that comes up first when you plug in the USB stick, and enables its second function.

You can't. You can't remove that "unnecessary" CD function permanently, you can just ignore it and work around it using usb-modeswitch.

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Actually there is a software that can do it under Linux: http://sourceforge.net/projects/u3-tool/. I've never tried that anyway and I can't give any feedback. Only the usual good hint: make a backup of your data before attempting anything about changing/deleting partitions/drives. Another tool is for windows users here: http://u3.sandisk.com/launchpadremoval.htm. Hope this helps.

Think I might just buy a new usb stick, this one is old. The point is, this whatever from China Telecom was uninvited, unwanted and invasive. I have win installed, but I hardly ever use it. If I had been using win, this whatever would have installed itself and done whatever it is that it does! Probably some kind of virus masquerading under the name of China Telecom.

Wherever it came from, whatever it was, I can't find it on my stick now.

Hi there,

you're assuming it's a USB stick using this U3 stuff? Hm, maybe. I hadn't thought of that. On reading "Broadband Telecom", I instantly thought of a UMTS or HSDPA modem, because I own one of these devices myself from my internet provider here in DE.

The only feedback I can give about that is hearsay. Apparently, there are different U3 units out there. With some of them, the U3 functionality can be removed, with others it can't. So maybe what Pedroski mentioned in his latest post is really the best idea: Get rid of that rubbish entirely.

[X] Doc CPU

Yeah, it is a San-Disk usb stick. In Linux it always mounts itself as 2 things, U3 CD and the usb stick, but then somehow I caught this China Telecom thing. I think now it wasn't them at all, but some virus or other thing. We have a Toshiba printer in the office, but it will not work with Linux. So when I want to print, I have to run the text onto my stick and then print from the windows computer.

I don't know if you have ever seen Chinese Windows. It is totally invasive, fills your screen with adverts, popups, programs you never asked for, which start at random times. I don't know how people can use it! So it's not surprising this thing slipped itself onto my stick. I hope it self terminated!