Saturday, November 08, 2008

How to prevent your PEN drive from VIRUS

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.(Embedded image moved to file:
pic31115.jpg) 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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