Do you know u can Flash drive viruses manual? This is how to detect whether your hard disk or removable disk has been infected with Flash drive virus.
When u rightclick your hard drive or your removable disk and what u have there is not readable (i.e another lang), then follow these steps
step 1 - open command prompt i.e click start button, select run, type cmd then press enter
step 2 - change the directory to another , type cd d:
Or f: g: h: etc and then press enter
step 3 - type cd (Flash drive name:) and press enter
u should see some strange files like autorun.ini, autorun.inf, system.exe, desktop.ini.
step 4 - type del autorun.* and press enter (this should delete all autorun files)
type del system.exe and press enter
type del *.ini and press enter
Do this one by one for all your partition and your flash drive if infected
You can now unplug your flash and plug it back, if the virus still persists then u need something else.
Thats all & Enjoy.
PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition 5
Posted under Anti virus
This post was written by dreamhost on September 20, 2008
