05-06-2013, 01:55 PM
How to remove Virus from USB Drives
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One of the ways by which a virus can infect your PC is through USB/Pen drives. Common viruses
such as ’Ravmon’ , ‘New Folder.exe’, ‘Orkut is banned’ etc are spreading through USB drives. Most
anti virus programs are unable to detect them and even if they do, in most cases they are unable to
delete the file, only quarantine it. Here are the things which you can do if you want to remove such
viruses from your USB drives.
1. Whenever you plug a USB drive in your system, a window will appear similar to the one
shown below
2. Don’t click on Ok , just choose ‘Cancel’.
3. Open the Command Prompt by typing ‘cmd‘ in the run box.
4. In the command prompt type the drive letter: and press enter.
5. Now type dir /w/a and press enter.
6. This will display a list of the files in the pen drive. Check whether the following files are there
or not:
• Autorun.inf
• Ravmon.exe
• New Folder.exe
• svchost.exe
• Heap41a
• or any other exe file which may be suspicious.
Other simple ways
1. Don’t loan your flash drive to anyone. If you do you're taking a risk there. Lending your flash
card is not a good idea. You don't know what’s on your friend’s computer or what worm will
work its way to your flash drive then to your computer.
2. When you insert it to your USB port run your anti virus scanner on it first. BEFORE YOU
OPEN THE DRIVE!!!! If it is infected it will tell you.
3. Make sure you update your anti virus program first. Anytime you hook anything to your
computer scan for virus before you open it.