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Clean Viruses From Your USB Drives – Delete Virus Created Files And Other Specific Files From Pen Drives With USBDriveFresher

Rohit — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Trouble:

It could happen that you suddenly see some useless files created on your USB portable devices like pen drives, iPod and Memory Card etc. These files may be sometimes created by some virus infection which might have come after you had used your USB drive on any other computer which is already infected with some virus.

When you drive get infected normally the virus will create some virus executables and autorun.inf files which will make the executable run the next time you connect that drive to any other computer, so in order to remove virus from pen drive you will need to remove autorun.inf and other virus files

See Also: Free USB Flash Drive Protector

Here is how you can remove these files and make your drive free from virus

Fix:

USBDriveFresher [ via BlogsDNA ] is a free to use tool to clean up your USB drives from unwanted and useless files. It will remove the files like thumbs.db, or .Trashes folder etc and moreover you can also configure what to delete and what not to delete on your USB portable drive.

It can perform following type of clean ups

1. Customizable cleanup of files and folder which you specify

2. Predefined cleanup settings you had specified

3. Clean USB drive with a single mouse click

4. Auto cleanup of USB drive when it is plugged in to your computer

5. Folder deletion on USB Drive

Related Tip: Disabling Autorun Autoplay which may cause virus infection from pen drives

Download USBDriveFresher

Ninja Pendisk – Protect Your Computer From Pen-Drive Viruses

Abhishek — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:42:41 +0000

Trouble:

The most common source of virus infection for computers these days is Pen-Drives. This has become a big annoyance, we have received lots of emails from our readers regarding infected pen-drives ruining their computers.

We have written a series of articles about the same:

In continuation to the useful topics covered above, we are going to tell you about another useful utility called Ninja-Pendisk.

You simply run it on your computer and will monitor every pen drive you plug in, and remove any potential viruses.

Fix:

You can simply Download Ninja Pendisk and run it, it will sit on your system tray, and monitor any pen-drive which u connect to your computer. It works for Windows XP and Windows Vista both.

Also you can set it to start at start-up, so that you need not run it every time you start windows, it will come automatically.

Hope you find it useful, if you have any suggestions or comments, please leave a comment below.

Remove your pen drive and autorun viruses with smart virus remover

Rohit — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:26:53 +0000

Trouble:

We receive a majority of virus problems which are due to virus which spread through pen drives, cd’s and other portable devices like mp3 players, ipod etc.

Today, we have come up with a free tool called smart virus removal by Muhammad Abdullah. This small tool will let you remove a group of viruses from your system including the following list of viruses.

Virus.Win32.Agent.aw.a
Virus.Win32.AutoIt.a.a
Virus.Win32.AutoRun.abt.a
im.worm.win32.sohanad.bm.a
im.worm.win32.sohanad.t.a
Trojan.Win32.Agent.abt.aTrojan-Downloader.Win32.AutoIt.aa.a
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.AutoIt.q.a
Trojan-PSW.Win32.OnLineGames.mgw.com.a
Trojan-PSW.Win32.OnLineGames.pno.a.com
Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ajn.com

Let’s see how can you use smart virus remover tool to eliminate any on these mentioned viruses from your computer or pen drive.

Fix:

Smart Virus Remover is simple tool which gives you four main options for virus removal, which includes:

Delete Autorun.inf files
Restore Windows to default settings
Remove Virus from a Folder
Remove Virus from USB

If your windows drive does not open mouse double click, you can also easily delete those autorun.inf files which stops a drive being opened on mouse double click, this utility will be most help full in such a kind of associations.

We hope this tool which will help delete autorun.inf viruses from your computer and also on other portable drives, Smart virus removal tool was quit forum like History, EULA,Disclaimer, Newer Version Check .

Download Smart Virus Remover