
How to Clean a Virus Infected Flash Drive?The USB flash drive is compact and easy to carry around. However, as the storage device is so common and easily used, the percentage of the drive being infected by viruses has also increased substantially.In the Start-->Run and type cmd to run the Command Prompt Window.In the Command Window, type in your flash drive’s drive letter (if your pen drive is detected as G, then type G: and so on). Once you have gone in to your pen drive, now type dir/w/o/a/p and hit Enter. You will then see a list of files. Search whether any of these files appear or exist:1. Autorun.inf2. New Folder.exe3. Bha.vbs4. Iexplore.vbs5. Info.exe6. New_Folder.exe7. Ravmon.exe8. RVHost.exe or any other files with “.exe” extensionFlash Disinfector: was designed to remove unwanted files including autorun.inf on removable USB drives, flash drives and memory sticks. Use flash disinfector if you cannot access your USB drives, flash drives and memory stick due to modifications done by autorun Worms.http://www.techsupportforum.com/sectools/sUBs/Flash_Disinfector.exe1. Download Flash_Disinfector and save it ot your Desktop2. After downloading, double-click on Flash_Disinfector to run it.3. Just follow the prompts and continue until it begin scanning.4. If asked to insert your flash drive or any removable device including USB Pen Drive and Memory Stick, please do so.5. It will scan removable drives, wait for the scan to finish. Done.Clean Autoruns: When you open the drive , it says that it could not find the script file C:\autorun.vbs and whenever you right click on it some weird characters are shown.Now you cant open your drives unless you explore them.The symptom occurs because when autorun.vbs is created by trojan horse or virus. The virus normally loads autorun.inf file to root folder of all hard drive or USB drive, and then execute autorun.bat file which contains script to apply and merge autorun.reg into the registry, with...
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