Saturday, October 10, 2009

How to prevent your PEN drive from VIRUS

  • Connect your Pen Drive or USB drive to your computer .
  • Now a dialogue window will popup asking you to choose among the options as shown in the figure.
  • Don't choose any of them , Just simply click Cancel.
    • *Now go to Start--> Run and type cmd to open the Command Prompt window ..
    • *Now go to My Computer and Check the Drive letter of your USB drive or Pen Drive. ( E.g. If it is written Kingston (I:) , then I: will be the drive letter ..)
    • *In the Command Window ( cmd ) , type the drive letter: and Hit Enter ..
    • *Now type dir/w/o/a/p and Hit Enter
    • *You will get a list of files . In the list , search if anyone of the following do exist
    • 1. Autorun.inf
    • 2. New Folder.exe
    • 3. Bha.vbs
    • 4. Iexplore.vbs
    • 5. Info.exe
    • 6. New_Folder.exe
    • 7. Ravmon.exe
    • 8. RVHost.exe or any other files with .exe Extension .
    • If you find any one of the files above , Run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and Hit Enter.
    • Now Delete each File using the following Command del filename ( E.g del autorun.inf ) .
    • That's it . Now just scan your USB drive with the anti virus you have to ensure that you made your Pen Drive free of Virus .

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