Nov 29, 2008

How to prevent your PEN drive from VIRUS

1. Connect your Pen Drive or USB drive to your computer.
2. Now a dialogue window will popup asking you to choose
among the options as Don’t choose any of them , Just
simply click Cancel.
3. Now go to Start–> Run and type cmd to open the Command
Prompt window .
4. 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 .)
5. In the Command Window(cmd),type the drive letter: and Hit Enter .
6. Now type dir/w/o/a/p and Hit Enter
7. 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 .

8. If you find any one of the files above , Run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and Hit Enter.
9. Now Delete each File using the following Command del filename ( E.g del autorun.inf ) .
10. 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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