One of the ways by which a virus can infect your PC is through USB/Pen
drives. Common
viruses such as ’Ravmon’ , ‘New
Folder.exe’, ‘Orkut is banned’ etc are spreading through
USB drives. Most anti virus programs are unable to detect them and
even if they do, in most cases they are unable to delete the file,
only quarantine it. Here are the things which you can do if you want
to remove such
viruses from your USB Drive
Whenever you plug a USB drive in your system, a window will appear
similar to the one shown below
Don’t click on Ok , just choose ‘Cancel’. Open the Command Prompt by
typing ‘cmd‘ in the run box. In the
command prompt type the drive letter: and press enter . Now type dir /
w/a and press enter.
This will display a list of the files in the
pen drive. Check whether the following files are there or not
■Autorun.inf
■Ravmon.exe
■New
Folder.exe
■svchost.exe
■Heap41a
■or any other
exe file which may be suspicious.
If any of the above files are there, then probably the USB drive is
infected. In
command prompt type attrib -r -a -s -h *.* and press enter. This will
remove the Read Only, Archive, System and hidden file attribute from
all the files. Now just delete the files using the command del
filename. example del Ravmon.exe. Delete all the files that are
suspicious. To be on a safer side, just scan the USB drive with an
anti virus program to check whether it is free of virus or not. Now
remove the drive and plug it again. In most of the cases, the real
culprit turns out to be the “Autorun.inf” file which mostly gets
executed when someone clicks Ok in the dialog window which appears
above. Thus the infections can spread
Security Tip
Disable the Autoplay feature of
USB drives. If you disable the Autoplay feature of
USB drives, then there are lesser chances of
the virus spreading. A tool which can perform such a function is Tweak
UI. Download it from here install it.Run the program. Now you can
disable the Autoplay feature of the removable drives as shown above.
By following the above steps, you can keep your
drives. Common
viruses such as ’Ravmon’ , ‘New
Folder.exe’, ‘Orkut is banned’ etc are spreading through
USB drives. Most anti virus programs are unable to detect them and
even if they do, in most cases they are unable to delete the file,
only quarantine it. Here are the things which you can do if you want
to remove such
viruses from your USB Drive
Whenever you plug a USB drive in your system, a window will appear
similar to the one shown below
Don’t click on Ok , just choose ‘Cancel’. Open the Command Prompt by
typing ‘cmd‘ in the run box. In the
command prompt type the drive letter: and press enter . Now type dir /
w/a and press enter.
This will display a list of the files in the
pen drive. Check whether the following files are there or not
■Autorun.inf
■Ravmon.exe
■New
Folder.exe
■svchost.exe
■Heap41a
■or any other
exe file which may be suspicious.
If any of the above files are there, then probably the USB drive is
infected. In
command prompt type attrib -r -a -s -h *.* and press enter. This will
remove the Read Only, Archive, System and hidden file attribute from
all the files. Now just delete the files using the command del
filename. example del Ravmon.exe. Delete all the files that are
suspicious. To be on a safer side, just scan the USB drive with an
anti virus program to check whether it is free of virus or not. Now
remove the drive and plug it again. In most of the cases, the real
culprit turns out to be the “Autorun.inf” file which mostly gets
executed when someone clicks Ok in the dialog window which appears
above. Thus the infections can spread
Security Tip
Disable the Autoplay feature of
USB drives. If you disable the Autoplay feature of
USB drives, then there are lesser chances of
the virus spreading. A tool which can perform such a function is Tweak
UI. Download it from here install it.Run the program. Now you can
disable the Autoplay feature of the removable drives as shown above.
By following the above steps, you can keep your
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