PREVENTION OF PEN DRIVE FROM VIRUSES

           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 .
This virus is very very common now...To know whether ur system is infected just type C:\heap41a in the address bar...if there is a folder named heap41a, then ur system is infected...

Note :  

       (AVAST antivirus is the best solution for this worm...) symantec also works.

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