How To Protect Your Pen Drive From Virus?

A majority of systems get infected by Pen Drives or USB devices. It is due to the fact that a lot of viruses, like Ravmon Virus, Heap41a worm etc. are not caught by a simple anti virus system. So how will you protect your system against these worms?

Just Follow these simple, yet effective steps:

Connect your Pen Drive or USB drive to your system.

As usual, a pop up window will be displayed on your screen (Similar to the screen shot that is visible here)

• Just click Cancel (without clicking on the options that are available in front of you).


• G to Start – Run -Type ‘cmd’.


• This will open a Command Prompt window in front of you.


• Go to My Computer and Check the Drive letter of the USB Drive (E.g. Kingston (G:), then G: is your drive letter).


• Now go back to the Command Window, and type the drive letter.


• Now Press Enter.


• Type dir/w/o/a/p and Press Enter Again.

You will get a list of files. Check if the following options are there in the list or not.

• Autorun.inf


• Bha.vbs


• New Folder.exe


• Iexplore.vbs


• Info.exe


• New_Folder.exe


• Ravmon.exe


• RVHost.exe or any other files with .exe extension

If yes, then run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and press Enter.

The next step would be to delete every file that is in the list by using the following Command del filename. ( E.g del autorun.inf ). It’s Over. Now scan your Pen drive with Anti Virus.

source:techdrunk.com

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