Remove Pen Drive Virus

Viruses such as “autorun” and “Ravmon” virus mostly affect the pen drive. Most of the Antivirus does not detect such kind of viruses. Such viruses are spread mostly through pen drive. So now you can protect your computer from such kind of viruses by doing the following steps.

1. Plug your USB drive in your system.
2. You will be prompted by a dialog box as shown below.

3. If you can see the dialog box just click Cancel. Don’t try to open your pen drive.
4. If you were not able to view the dialog box do nothing, just check whether your pen drive appears in My Computer window. Don’t try to open your pen drive. If you could not able see your pen drive try to remove and plug it again.
5. Now go to Start--> Run and type cmd to open the Command Prompt window.
6. Go to My Computer and Check the Drive letter of your USB drive or Pen Drive. (E.g. If it is written Transcend (J :) , then J: will be the drive letter.)
7. Type the drive letter followed by a colon (e.g “J:”) inn the Command Window and Hit Enter.
8. Then type dir/w/o/a/p and Hit Enter
9. Now you will get a list of files. In the list of files, search if anyone of the following exist


a.Autorun.inf
b.NewFolder.exe
c.Bha.vbs
d.Iexplore.vbs
e.Info.exe
f.New_Folder.exe
g.Ravmon.exe
h.RVHost.exe or any other files with .exe Extension .


10. If you could find any one of the files above, Run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and Hit Enter.
11. Next type the following command to delete each File.
12. The Command to type is del filename (E.g. del autorun.inf).
Now you are done and your USB drive is virus free. Scan your pen drive using any antivirus tool to check whether it is virus free.