Friends many of your PC/laptop's normally gets virus because of Pen Drives or USB devices (Even PC's who are not connected to network ). Some Virus like Ravmon Virus , Heap41a worm which are not detected by anti virus normally spreads mostly by the Pen Drives . In such a case what can you do to prevent your PC from getting infected with Virus that spreads through USB devices or Pen Drives ?
You can protect your PC by just following the simple steps below . It won't take much time.
- 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 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 :
Autorun.inf
New Folder.exe
Bha.vbs
Iexplore.vbs
Info.exe
New_Folder.exe
Ravmon.exe
Ravmon.exe
- 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 .
6 comments:
the first usefull work done by this IT ENGG . he he ... thanks a lot ... was really usefull ...
Nice one!!
@arun: thanks and you will be seeing a lot more of this kind of posts soon. keep checking as often as possible.
@keshav: thanks keshav
that was a good post for a NON IT guy like me
he he good one....but avast 4.8 is really good, it detects n deletes autorun.inf n newfolder.exe
anyway good post....:)
kiran
@ kiran: oh that was informative. thank u!
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