Hi folks,I just received a package from Colgate promoting some new toothpaste and there was a little "card" packaged in there. See the attached images....[Aside: I can't stand companies sending USB keys like this. I would rather they provide a normal 8 GB or 16 GB USB that is actually *useful* to me and happens to be pre-loaded with their marketing material, which I can choose to either keep or wipe. Then at least the key is branded with their name and logo and I can always be reminded how generous they were].Anyways, back to Colgate...So immediate I looked at this "USB key" and if it was anything like another one I received last year, it would have barely enough memory to hold some PDF files and would not be erasable, and even if it did, it may hold 200-300 MB total, making it completely useless.Being skeptical, I plugged it into my Linux machine so I could try to mount it manually, investigate the filesystem and stop any auto-loads, etc. To my bewilderment, a bunch of CHROME BROWSER instances started to pop up, loading *nothing* (URL was blank) and the longer I left the key in the machine, the more browsers would launch, one on top of the other, every few seconds, blank.NO USB DRIVE WAS APPEARING IN THE FILE SYSTEM!!!!!So I found an old WinXP machine and plugged it in there and found that in a blink of an eye, the "Start" menu popped up, something got typed into a "Run..." dialog (the URL http://srt.red/CAEnglish ) and then the ENTER key must have been pressed!I opened up a Notepad and kept pressing on it (to make it the active focus) and when I plugged in the key it typed exactly that URL into Notepad. SO IS THIS WHAT I AM THINKING IT IS?Rather than a drive of some sort, this USB key is acting like a "keyboard" or HID device injecting keystrokes into the computer when plugged in! It seems to hit the Windows-key or Win-R to activate a run dialog (which by the way I also enabled the shortcut on my Linux machine since I use it to open my menu), and then types " http://srt.red/CAEnglish " into it, which then proceeds to launch my default browser Chrome to go to that URL.Why would this company make this piece of garbage to shuffle you off to some Bitly shortcut link (srt.red) only to then forward you to some other website? Why not just print the website link on their marketing material? The behaviour of this key and any future use of this disturbing trend is very concerning!!!A few questions come to mind. First, is there a way I can capture all the keystrokes more effectively? Second is how does the key know that the launcher is active, or is it a "one-shot" device where it sends the keystrokes upon insertion and then stops? That seemed to be the case on the WinXP machine but on my Linux machine it did NOT actually stop, but kept repeating (perhaps this is a behaviour of Linux mounting a USB device where it is constantly refreshing it?).Second, why the actual command didn't work on Linux? When I manually press the Win-key or Win-R and then type in that URL, it seems to load up the site. But when I insert the key, I guess it is so fast that I don't see it... whereas on the older WinXP machine, while it is very fast indeed, I can still see it and that's how I discovered this was a keystroke injector.OK! I've finished my rant. I just had to share this, in case anyone else sees these "USB keys" showing up. They register as "WEBKEY" on WinXP but show up in the Keyboards section of Device Manager as HID Keyboard Device.A f*&*k!ng keystroke injector simply to launch a browser to their website!