I have the same problem, but I'm not sure whether the drive is write-protected. (I don't think it is.) The drive works on my old computer with Kaspersky, and it worked yesterday on my current Windows 8.1 machine with McAfee, but since I uninstalled McAfee last night and installed eset NOD32 antivirus, that thumb drive hangs up the computer. Other thumb drives don't hang up the computer, however, so it seems to be the combination of that specific thumb drive and eset NOD32 antivirus. For now I start up my old computer and view the thumb drive there, but it's not an ideal solution. Has eset figured out a solution to the problem of it causing computers to hang when a thumb drive that it doesn't like is inserted?
