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Thursday, December 9, 2010

HOW TO PREVENT YOUR PEN 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 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 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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