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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

How to Prevent virus from pen drive entering your computer

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 .

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