We had already written a lot on autorun.inf viruses and also discussed various tools which lets you remove them or protect your computer from these autorun.inf viruses. Autorun Exterminator is quite small program which runs itself in system tray and protect your computer real time from autorun viruses.

AutoRunExterminator is another free tool which protects your computer real time against various types of virus which use autorun.inf files to infect your computer through USB data drives and other portable devices like ipod, mp3 player etc.

Let’s see how does this software works to protect your computer against autorun.inf viruses

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This small software monitors all the permanent and removable drives for the existence of autorun.inf files in the root drive. When ever it finds a file with this name it automatically deletes them. However this small tool is not dangerous as it cannot delete any autorun.inf files on CD and DVD drives.

AutoRunExterminator shows you how many autorun.inf which were found and how many of them are excluded by the reader. Moreover it also disables the Autorun or autoplay in simple language which again makes it more powerful and usable.

For a consistent real time protection it is desired that you configure this program to start with windows.

Download AutoRunExterminator

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Most of the virus infections are caused due to virus spreading through pen drives, memory cards and other USB drives. Many of these viruses use autorun.inf viruses which cause the infection because of a small autorun.inf files which triggers the virus files on your pen drive.

When you double click on your USB pen drive icon to open the drive in windows explorer these autorun.inf files run the viruses files and copy them to your computer to cause virus infection.

In this post we will talk about a tool called “USB Autorun Blocker” to protect your computer from pen drive viruses.

Lets find out how does this tool protect your computer from autorun.inf viruses.

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USB Autorun Blocker is a very light program, low on eating system resources. It gets loaded automatically into system memory.

How does USB protects from viruses in USB pen drive?

When ever you connect a new drive to your computer which contains autorun.inf viruses, it automatically renames autorun.inf files on the device and changes the attribute of autorun.inf file to be normal and visible to the user.

As a result you can delete the autorun.inf files on the drive and also delete all other virus files  on the USB drive, whose names are their in the autorun.inf files code.

Download USB Autorun Blocker

Also see:

1. Ninja Pendisk USB Protection Tool

2. USB Firewall For USB Virus Protection

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