How to protect PEN DRIVE from Virus
By kiran20096
Now a days pen drive has become as mendatory to have wather you are having PC ar not , Early days pen was only thing which we you to carry but know time has changed along with that we carry Pen Drive.
What is Pen Drive? Now this questions come into our mind. Actualy pen drive is a device which contain a chip (memory) which store all the data in it or we can call removable Hard Disk of Computer.
This is used to transfer data from one computer to another.
But Now big problem is that It is also becoming dangerious for the PCs , because in large amount it is affected by the virus. This virus is very hurmful it can damge all the data's of computer or some virus's are so dangerious it can damage Hard Disk also.
Don't be panic, Here I am going to show you how you can save or protect your PEN DRIVE from Virus. Just simply follow this steps in your computer and you will ammaged to see it.
Here It is --------
STEP 1. Open your Computer or Laptop, Click on START then go to RUN then type CMD now check the letter of your pen drive (eg. H:)
STEP 2. In the command promt now type H: and press ENTER
STEP 3. Now Type dir/w/o/a/p and press ENTER, now you will get list of file. Check this file for "Autorun.inf, new folder.exe, bha.vbs,explore.vbs, info.exe, ravon.exe,ravon.exe, mntdrcore.exe,rvhost.exe or other exe file extention.
STEP 4. If you found any of the above file then run the command [attrib -h -r -s -a*.* ] in comman promt and then press Enter
STEP 5. Now Delete each file one by one using del file name eg. del autorun.inf .
STEP 6. Now scan your pen drive from any anti-virus, Now you will find that your pen drive does't get affected from virus.
Good Luck.
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Comments
Thanks I will try it.
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Nice article. You need to create a folder named autorun.inf to stop loading pen drive viruses automatically. You can visit http://www.srnmicro.com/customers/techfaq.htm for pen drive virus protection methods
For god sake improve your english!
more ways to prevent pen drive without software
Sweet way to protect your USB from viruses, but what about a password in case you forget it somewhere and someone finds it? I'm a fan of a SanDisk's
thankyou
Thanks friend. http://www.computingunleashed.com/2010/03/protect-
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effective way for protecting our pen drive.tanks for helping.
My God .. I fairly could understand what you wrote!
this is very helpful information to protect our pen form malicious program
thank you so much,it's very helpful
Thank u so much. It was very helpfull for me.
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Awesome article!!
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And I thought my English was crap. Hehehe
i have got 16gb kingston pen drive it not reading the zero track(bad zero track) how can i solve this
thx....
avi 3 years ago
Thank you