How a virus in your pen drive infects?

Most of the active viruses infect your windows system as soon as you double click on the Pen Drive icon in your my computer. As virus always creates a autorun.inf file which is a system ,hidden and a read only file on your pen drive. It point to the main virus file which is also located on the pen drive. When user double clicks on the pen drive files pointed by the autorun.inf got executed which copies the virus files on your system.

The image below shows the Autorun file entries in some special characters when you right click on the drive.

Let’s see how can you protect yourself by following certain practices.

Fix:

Let’s discuss these practices one by one:

1. Disable Autorun on Your Pen Drive:

• Open to Start >> Run and type “gpedit.msc” (without quotes) and press enter. This will open Group policy editor.
• Browse to Administrative templates >> System >> double click on Turn off Autoplay click on Enabled and Under Settings >> Select All Drives in the drop down and click OK (as shown in the image below)

2. Scan Your Pen Drive:

Whenever you insert your pen drive / portable drive into USB port on your system make sure to run a virus scan with your anti virus before opening your pen drive contents in windows explorer.

3. Use FreeCommander:

FreeCommander is again a file explorer like windows explorer, so you just need to download it by clicking here and install it.

After installing open your pen drive through FreeCommander (as shown in the image below)

Check if there are some additional files like autorun.inf , Funny UST Scandal.avi.exe ,Ravmon.exe ,New Folder.exe etc or any other file which you have not copied or created, delete all these suspicious files on your pen drive.
4. Use your virus infected pen drive: You can also use your virus infected pen drives to copy your important data in worst circumstances.

How to protect PEN DRIVE from Virus

Now a days pen drive has become as mendatory to have wather you are having PC ar not , Early days pen was only thing which we you to carry but know time has changed along with that we carry Pen Drive.

What is Pen Drive? Now this questions come into our mind. Actualy pen drive is a device which contain a chip (memory) which store all the data in it or we can call removable Hard Disk of Computer.

This is used to transfer data from one computer to another.

But Now big problem is that It is also becoming dangerious for the PCs , because in large amount it is affected by the virus. This virus is very hurmful it can damge all the data's of computer or some virus's are so dangerious it can damage Hard Disk also.

Don't be panic, Here I am going to show you how you can save or protect your PEN DRIVE from Virus. Just simply follow this steps in your computer and you will ammaged to see it.

Here It is --------

STEP 1. Open your Computer or Laptop, Click on START then go to RUN then type CMD now check the letter of your pen drive (eg. H:)

STEP 2. In the command promt now type H: and press ENTER

STEP 3. Now Type dir/w/o/a/p and press ENTER, now you will get list of file. Check this file for "Autorun.inf, new folder.exe, bha.vbs,explore.vbs, info.exe, ravon.exe,ravon.exe, mntdrcore.exe,rvhost.exe or other exe file extention.

STEP 4. If you found any of the above file then run the command [attrib -h -r -s -a*.* ] in comman promt and then press Enter

STEP 5. Now Delete each file one by one using del file name eg. del autorun.inf .

STEP 6. Now scan your pen drive from any anti-virus, Now you will find that your pen drive does't get affected from virus.

Good Luck.

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