Flash Drive vs Virus
I received an email from a friend today about how to detect and delete virus from the pen drive. I think its useful to someone who doesn’t know. I never used to use a Anti-Virus till recent after only discovering the exe virus which destroyed many of my valuable files i have started using Avast. One advantage i have seen over other software’s is that Avast doesn’t consume much ram as Norton or McAfee does. Here is the email and the credit goes to the person who composed it and to Varun for sharing it.
1. Plug your pen drive or USB device to the computer.
2. After a few moments, a dialog box will pop up. Ignore this dialog box by clicking Cancel.
3. Now go to Start –> Run and type cmd to open the Command Prompt window.
4. In the Command window, type the USB drive letter and then press Enter. For instance, the drive letter for your USB device may be “E:” In this case, type “E:” in the Command window and press Enter.
5. Then, type dir/w/o/a/p and press Enter.
You will now get a list of files. In the list, see if you have any of the following:
- Autorun.inf
- New Folder.exe
- Bha.vbs
- Iexplore.vbs
- Info.exe
- New_Folder.exe
- Ravmon.exe
- RVHost.exe
- Any other files with .exe extension
If you notice any of the files above, type attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and press Enter.
Now delete each of the above files by typing the following command: del “filename” (for instance, del autorun.inf).
That’s all there is to it! Now just scan your USB drive with the anti-virus software you have to ensure that your pen drive is really free of all viruses.
