Many of you might be facing the pendrive virus problem, where you cannot access the contents of your pen drives due to some malicious virus in your pen drive. There are several ways to tackle this problem.
How to remove your pendrive virus/USB virus :
1. At first insert your pen drive but don’t open it.
2. Click on “Start,” “Run”; type “cmd” and press “Enter” to open the command prompt window. Type the drive letter, for example, “H” followed by a colon (“:”), and press “Enter” at the command prompt to open the root directory of the drive.
3. Type “dir/w/o/a/p” and press “Enter” to display a list of files and folders present on the flash drive. Note the existence of any of the following in particular: Autorun.inf, New Folder.exe, Ravmon.exe, New_Folder.exe, svchost.exe.
4. Delete each of the files that have been unprotected by typing “del”, pressing the space bar and typing the file name, for example, “del autorun.inf”.
The instructions above is the removal method for some common viruses in pen drive and USB flash disk, if you fail to delete virus in pen drive through command prompt, try the effective virus removal tool.
You can also try some antivirus softwares if you think that manual work might not help. Bitdefender Antivirus or Nod 32 works quite well in this regard. You can also try the Microsoft Security Essentials by Microsoft.
Also check : Free Antivirus Softwares for Windows 7
