Friends many of your PC/laptop's normally gets virus because of Pen Drives or USB devices (Even PC's who are not connected to network ). Some Virus like Ravmon Virus , Heap41a worm which are not detected by anti virus normally spreads mostly by the Pen Drives . In such a case what can you do to prevent your PC from getting infected with Virus that spreads through USB devices or Pen Drives ?

You can protect your PC by just following the simple steps below . It won't take much time.

  • Connect your Pen Drive or USB drive to your computer .
  • Now a dialogue window will popup asking you to choose among the options as shown in the figure.Don't choose any of them , Just simply click Cancel
  • *Now go to Start--> Run and type cmd to open the Command Prompt window.
  • *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 .)
  • *In the Command Window ( cmd ) , type the drive letter: and Hit Enter.
  • *Now type dir/w/o/a/p and Hit Enter
  • *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.
  • If you find any one of the files above , Run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and Hit Enter.
  • Now Delete each File using the following Command del filename ( E.g del autorun.inf ) .
  • 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 .
  • Now Unplug your Pen Drive or USB device and Plug it again to your Laptop/PC . Before removing your Pen Drive from others Computer , Don't forget to search for .exe files using the Windows search and remove them .