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.

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A reader Failzal reported us a problem that whenever he tries to open C:\ he always see the error message and cannot open the drive.

C:\recycled\boot.com is not a valid Win32 application

This error comes due to the remaining virus autorun.inf files on the drive, this error occurs because the autorun.inf file does not find virus file boot.com at C:\recycled path to execute. As a result of this error the drive does not open but you can open the drive by right clicking on the drive letter and select Explore.

This problem may happen with your pen drive as well as any other windows drive also, but you can easily fix it following the methods given below.

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The main cause behind this problem is the remaining autorun.inf files which are there in the root directory of the infected drive so you just need to delete the files form there.

There are many methods to remove the suspicious autorun.inf files the first one is through a tool called Flash Disinfector and second method involves the manual method of removing the autorun.inf files, third one is also a very easy to use tool.

Method 1- Flash Disinfector

Flash Disinfector is one of the amazing free tool for removing the suspicious autorun.inf files which very easy to use, you can read the full review of Flash Disinfector here 

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Method 2 – Manual Removal

1. Open My Computer and Go to File Menu >> Tools >> Folder Options and click the View tab

2. Scroll down and locate the setting to show hidden files and folders and check it.

3. Now open all drive by right clicking in the drive letter and select explore to open and delete all the autorun.inf files found.

Method 3 – Autorun Eater

This is a very nice and effective tool to remove autorun files from your drives. Read how to use Autorun Eater here.

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Autorun.inf flash drives malwares spread these days through various portable USB devices like iPod, pen drives, autorun.inf malwares cause various types of damages like drive does open on double click, double clicking on drive opens search and even restart your computer when you try to open pen drive infected by autorun.inf malware.

We have already written about how to protect your computer against these autorun.inf viruses, how to remove these suspicious autorun.inf files with autorun eater and protect your computer from autorun.inf viruses by disabling autorun autoplay.

Flash Disinfector is another quite effective Flash Malware removing tool created by sUBs, it will target following flash malwares in general.

W32/Perlovga (copy.exe | host.exe)
VBS_RESULOWS.A (Hacked by Godzilla, Hacked by Moozilla)
Bha.dll.vbs
w32automa worm (Autorun.vbs)
Trojan.Win32.VB.atg | Win32/Dzan | Worm_vb.bnr (tel.xls.exe | mmc.exe)
W32/RJump.worm (RavMonE)
Worm.Win32.Delf.bf | W32.Fujacks (spoclsv.exe)
W32.Fujacks.BH (Fucker.vbs)
WORM_AGENT.PGV (soundmix.exe)
W32/Hakaglan.worm (RVHost.exe)
Trojan.Win32.VB.ayo [AVP] (Macromedia_Setup.exe)
Trojan.VBS.DeltreeY.b#1 (Destrukto!!! | destrukto.vbs)

 

Let see what does flash disinfector will do, and how can you use flash disinfector to remove autorun.inf malwares

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What Flash Disinfector will do ?

Flash Disinfector will perform the following operations –

• Clean up the junk files spread by flash malwares
• deletes the suspicious autorun.inf files from the root directory
• Fix the damages done by the virus
• Also creates an autorun.inf folder in root directory of your system drive

Note: Make sure to stop any anti virus, firewall or any script blockers before running Flash Disinfector,  We would suggest to run Flash Disinfector in the safe mode id possible.

How To Use Flash Disinfector

1. Download Flash Disinfector from here

2. Double click Flash_Disinfector.exe, follow the prompts

3. Your desktop may vanish for a while and then reappear back to normal

4. Wait till it finishes the scan, and then exit the program   

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Disclaimer: This tool does not guarantee the flash malwares removal and fixing your computer against all autorun.inf viruses.

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