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How to prevent your pen drive from getting infected with Virus ?

Saturday, February 2, 2008

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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 the figure.
  • Don't choose any of them , Just simply click Cancel .
  • Now go to Start--> Run and type cmd to open the Command Promt 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 .
Now Unplug your Pen Drive or USB device and Plug it again to your Laptop/PC . Before removing your Pen Drive from others Computer , Don't forget to search for .exe files using the Windows search and remove them .
HAVE A NICE DAY

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