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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

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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.

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Protect your computer from pen drive autorun.inf viruses with USB Firewall

Rohit — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:26:02 +0000

Trouble:

Many Viruses infect and harm the system with the use of malicious autorun files. This post is from the series of solutions we have prepared in order to protect windows from autorun.inf viruses which normally spread through pen drives or cd’s and other portable devices.

Recently we came across a program called USB Firewall. It prevent windows to process the malicious instructions while opening a virus infected pen drive or any portable USB device.

USB Firewall automatically detects the malicious autorun.inf file on your portable USB device, you can also see what command are written there in virus autorun.inf file.

Let’s see how can you use USB Firewall to protect yourself from all sort of autorun.inf viruses

Fix:

USB Firewall monitors all the USB device and ignores CD or DVD drives. USB Firewall is good enough to provide a basic level of protection from autorun.inf viruses which spread through USB Pen drives.

How to use USB Firewall?

You need to download and run USB Firewall application rest will be taken care by USB Firewall.

Features of USB Firewall:

You can delete the suspicious autorun.inf files
Show autorun.inf files
Clean All Partition

USB Firewall will always alert you about any suspicious autorun.inf file if its running when you have inserted your USB pen drive.

This tool is a freeware and free from any adware, malware and spyware etc, we have already tested this tool of some pen drives it works great and easy and solves the purpose.

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Back up your data from a virus infected pen drive

Abhishek — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:44:31 +0000

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.

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 : and press Enter.

For Example

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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How to protect your computer from virus in pen drives

Rohit — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:40:32 +0000

Trouble:

We have received lot of problems where computers got infected easily by the viruses in the pen drives, pen drives have become one of the most easiest carriers of various types of viruses these days.

We will tell you how pen drives normally infect your computer systems and how can you open pen drive safely and back up your important data.

How a virus in your pen drive infects?

Most of the active viruses infect your windows system as soon as you double click on the Pen Drive icon in your my computer. As virus always creates a autorun.inf file which is a system ,hidden and a read only file on your pen drive. It point to the main virus file which is also located on the pen drive. When user double clicks on the pen drive files pointed by the autorun.inf got executed which copies the virus files on your system.

The image below shows the Autorun file entries in some special characters when you right click on the drive.

Let’s see how can you protect yourself by following certain practices.

Fix:

Let’s discuss these practices one by one:

1. Disable Autorun on Your Pen Drive:

Open to Start >> Run and type “gpedit.msc” (without quotes) and press enter. This will open Group policy editor.
Browse to Administrative templates >> System >> double click on Turn off Autoplay click on Enabled and Under Settings >> Select All Drives in the drop down and click OK (as shown in the image below)

2. Scan Your Pen Drive:

Whenever you insert your pen drive / portable drive into USB port on your system make sure to run a virus scan with your anti virus before opening your pen drive contents in windows explorer.

3. Use FreeCommander:

FreeCommander is again a file explorer like windows explorer, so you just need to download it by clicking here and install it.

After installing open your pen drive through FreeCommander (as shown in the image below)

Check if there are some additional files like autorun.inf , Funny UST Scandal.avi.exe ,Ravmon.exe ,New Folder.exe etc or any other file which you have not copied or created, delete all these suspicious files on your pen drive.

Quick Update: 26th March 2008

4. Use your virus infected pen drive: You can also use your virus infected pen drives to copy your important data in worst circumstances.

How to backup your important data when your pen drive is infected with a virus

a. Insert your pen drive into the usb port, if it detects your drive you will see it in my computer.

b. Now don’t double click on your drive, rather open the pen drive contents by typing the drive letter.

For Example: type g: and press enter if your pen drive is shown as new g drive under my computer.

c. Copy your important files from your pen drive close the window and format your pen drive after then.

If you are still suspicious about the existence virus files on your pen drive, you can remove virus from your pen drive through command prompt by the method suggested by Madhur here in this article

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