It's a common problem that most of our computers get infected by viruses that usually spread through pendrives or USB drives and in some cases Viruses like Ravmon Virus , Heap41a worm which are not detected by anti virus normally spreads. In order to avoid this here is a tip that helps you to stop virus from entering your computer from usb drives.
Connect your Pen Drive or USB drive to your computer .
Now a dialogue window will popup asking you to choose among the options.
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.
In the Command prompt 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 .
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
How to Prevent virus from pen drive entering your computer
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