Friday, August 22, 2008

How to prevent your PenDrive 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 ,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. ( Eg: 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
  • If you find any of the above files, Run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and Hit Enter.
  • Now Delete those files using the following Command del filename (Eg: del autorun.inf).
  • That's it .

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