Back up your data from a virus infected pen drive

Trouble:

We have been receiving lots of problems these days, most of the problems relate to different types of virus which commonly infect through pen drives. There are large number of viruses like NewFolder.exe virus, Funny UST Scandal avi.Exe , kinza.exe and W32.Rontokbro.B@mm virus.

Most of these viruses cause the following most common problems on your windows computer.

• Folder Options Hidden
• Task Manager Disabled
• Registry Editing Disabled
• Command Prompt Disabled

All the types of viruses which infect from your system, through a file called autorun.inf created on the root directory of your pen drive. So, when you double click your virus infected pen drive the virus automatically copy itself to your system.

Let’s see how can you still open your infected pen drives on your computer copy your data.

Fix:

1. Firstly insert your pen drive into the USB port, windows will run autorun menu but don’t open your pen drive through autorun menu rather cancel it.

2. As your pen drive will get detected and will show under My Computer with a drive letter associated.

3. Press Window + R and type <drive letter of pendrive>: and press Enter.

For Example

e:

4. Back up your files from your pen drive, but remember to copy files only not folders.

5. Now, Click on Tools >> Folder Options and Click the View tab.

Scroll down and select to show hidden files and folders and click Ok

6. Move back the focus to your pen drive, you will see many virus files and folder. Delete any files or folder which looks suspicious to you from your pen drive.

We hope this will help you to backup your data from your pen drive when it is also infected with a virus, you can also refer to our post on How to troubleshoot Top 10 USB Pen Drive Problems or you can refer to out virus problems and solutions category.

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