Useful informations

1. Stay aware of current virus news by checking sites like McAfee's AVERT Alerts.
2. Keep your anti-virus software up-to-date, and use it. The University of Alabama distributes the McAfee/Virex line of software to its faculty, staff, students, and retirees.
3. Make sure that your anti-virus software checks all files every time they're opened.
4. Don't open e-mail attachments that you did not expect and don't know exactly what they are.
5. When downloading files from the Internet, download only from reputable sites and scan the files before executing them.
6. Be careful exchanging disks and files between computers. If you are taking a file to a computer lab for printing, write-protect the floppy disk.
7. If you use Microsoft Outlook (not Express) for e-mail, make sure that the "automatic preview" feature is disabled. You can find this option under the "View" menu.
8. Make sure that Microsoft Office macro virus protection is enabled.
9. Consider deinstalling Windows Scripting Host.

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 .