Some Tips to remove virus from pendrive

Pl Scan your computer with a powerful antivirus before plugging pen drive Then disable the autorun of pen drive using following instructions:Pl. Note: Don’t plug your pen drive until you applying the following steps.

STEPS TO DISABLE AUTORUN WHILE PLUGGING PENDRIVE
1. Click Start > Run
2. Type “gpedit.msc”
3. Computer Configuration > Click “Administrative Templates” > Click “System” > Double-Click “Turn off Autoplay”
4. Setting tab > Check “Enabled” > Select “All drives” from the drop down menu > Apply > OkThere 4 easy steps to making sure that Autoplay (Autorun) is disabled on all your drives including the USB. That would remove the ability of people to insert a USB drive and automatically run a .exe on your computer by using a *.inf file.
For Windows XP Operating System.Then Open Control Panel >Folder option>Select View Tab 1.Select Show Hidden files and folders under Hidden files and folders
2.Unselect Hide Extension for known file types
3.Unselect Hide protected operating system files(Recommended)


Pl click Yes in the dialogue box.Then Click Apply and Ok.Then Plug your Pen Drive to the USB Port
1.Click start>Run and Enter cmdYou are redirected to command prompt.
2. a)Type the drive name say H:
b) type ATTRIB -H -R -S AUTORUN.INF
c) type EDIT AUTORUN.INF then a new window appears, delete all the contents and click on File -> Save and click on File -> Exit in the command prompt
d)type ATTRIB +H +R +S AUTORUN.INF
3. a) Type DIR/ah to show all the files in your Pen Drive.
b) In command prompt type attrib -r -a -s -h *.* and press enter. This will remove the Read Only, Archive, System and hidden file attribute from all the files.
c)Now just delete the files using the command del filename (e.g. : del Example.exe) .
Delete all suspicious files…
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