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How to protect PEN DRIVE from Virus

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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.

(If having any problem or suggestion any of the computer Hardware or Networking, we will be pleased to have it from you.)

Comments

avi 3 years ago

Thank you

vikas 3 years ago

Thanks I will try it.

Do u have any crossplatform (Window Xp to Linux Suse) Lan Messenger freeware.

palival 2 years ago

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

Khan 2 years ago

For god sake improve your english!

mohit gupta 2 years ago

more ways to prevent pen drive without software

Carrie 2 years ago

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

eshwar 2 years ago

thankyou

AkShAy 22 months ago

ShUt Up

avinash 21 months ago

effective way for protecting our pen drive.tanks for helping.

Regio 20 months ago

My God .. I fairly could understand what you wrote!

AKET GUPTA 19 months ago

this is very helpful information to protect our pen form malicious program

preethi 19 months ago

thank you so much,it's very helpful

honey 18 months ago

Thank u so much. It was very helpfull for me.

SHANKAR 18 months ago

Useful Informatiion

aseem 17 months ago

Awesome article!!

It helped a lot!!!!!!!!!

tarun 17 months ago

http://www.mackstores.com/blog/?p=49

Look at this ways to futher protect it

Anirudh 17 months ago

very good i got it

anup gharat 17 months ago

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hari 13 months ago

Simply Best...

ramandeep singh 13 months ago

i think using a firewall or a portable antivirus would be a better option to stay safe...check out here http://www.jasica.in/2011/04/bestever-tips-to-prot

Guest 12 months ago

And I thought my English was crap. Hehehe

raveesh 8 months ago

i have got 16gb kingston pen drive it not reading the zero track(bad zero track) how can i solve this

sangeetha 7 months ago

thx....

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