Remove Autorun.inf Virus from Pendrive Easily – Without Antivirus!

April 11, 2009

WindowsSecurity

As we know Our Antivirus (Basically, Avira, Avast, AVG, etc), Only detects Virus i.e autorun.inf whenever we  insert your removable disk (Pen Drives). But our AntiVirus  can’t disinfect it nor delete it.

We have a tutorial for you all through which you all can get Rid from this Virus without any Antivirus:

1.) Open Notepad

2.) Do not write anything in it.

3.) Save as (any where in PC i.e Desktop) with name “autorun.inf”

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4.) Copy and paste in your “Pen Drives”

5.) Remove your drive then insert again, it will open normally

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Alternative Method:
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Net Studio” have launched a software i.e. USB FireWall which is a very smart application which protects you from all malicious programs which try to launch itself using autorun.inf through opening the drive from Windows Explorer.

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This Software will inform and warn you when such program exist in your USB storage. USB Autorun.inf warning When you get a warning after inserting a USB flash drive, you can click the SHOW AUTORUN.INF button to view what are the instructions in the autorun.inf file. If you don’t remember putting an autorun.inf file in the USB flash drive or don’t know how it got there, simply click the DELETE button from USB FireWall and it will clean it for you.

This tool only monitors the USB device and ignores CD or DVD drives. Using USB FireWall has an advantage over the registry hack and that is to alert me when my USB contains autorun.inf so I don’t accidentally use my USB flash drive to infect other people’s computer with virus.

Download USB Firewall from Here
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Click here to scan your PC for common system errors

Also take a look @ Rogue Anti-Spyware Section to remove various malicious

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