September 4, 2009

How to delete autorun.inf virus from usb



If your computer infected with autorun virus, you will get an open with wizard when you double click on a drive. you can manually delete the autorun.inf file using following steps
Microsoft released patch to prevent Autorun Virus


First you Restart your computer to safe mode !

Open command prompt ( Go to Start >> RUN and type CMD)

Go to the drive. ("cd e:" - use your drive letter )

Go to the root directory (cd \ )

then change the attributes of the autorun file

attrib -h -r -s autorun.inf

-h = remove Hidden property
-r = remove Read only property
-s = remove System file property

Now you delete the file

del -h -r -s autorun.inf

Only open that drive after the restart.

Thats it ....

4 comments:

Sasha said...

hello
I have this virus, but now i clear after your useful guidelines.
thanks for great tips.

Kothapally Arun said...

Quite useful post. This autorun virus is very troublesome.

irfanonview said...

This is what people looking for. Tips to clean viruses. Very beneficial Post Mr Allin. Just keep share..

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