How to prevent your PEN(USB) drive from VIRUS

How to prevent your PEN(USB) drive from VIRUS



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, 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 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

very useful and helpful trick.

good work mate.

thanks a lot suri

great job done suri .... keep it up ... now i know why i always see autorun.info in my every folder ... its coz of the pen drives errrrrrrr
thx for sharing great piece of info with us brov

Nice and informative info bro

thanks

very nice post suri bro you rocking

Thanks all, you all are always welcome

thank u suri..
nice info

hmmm.. very tricky... but u will surely try

I stopped usin USB it always givin me problems, i cant format aftr sometime use, CD is gud alt

Excellent info

Arabian wrote:I stopped usin USB it always givin me problems, i cant format aftr sometime use, CD is gud alt

cd max 700 mb, dvd max 4 gb... but pen drive can have much more capacity as we need...