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.

Read Also: Protect your computer from pen drive autorun.inf viruses

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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We have posted many methods on how can you protect your pen drive from viruses, and even if your pen drive got infected with some virus you can remove the virus with various removal tools. There could be situation when you want to backup your data from a virus infected pen drive.

Today, we found another FREE tool called iKill ( via TechnoSpot.net ) scans your computer and pen drives connected to computer for suspicious autorun.inf files and parses any autorun.inf files for suspicious code which may point to some executable virus file.

Lets see how can you remove virus from pen drive using this tool.

Fix:

iKill works by scanning the drives like portable drives for suspicious autorun.inf files and delete these virus created autorun.inf files. It will always ask you before deleting any autorun.inf files.

iKill will start up with windows to protect you always and scan any portable device connected to the computer. This tool is completely free from any adware, spyware and malware etc.

Note: It will require .net framework 2.0 to be installed on your computer to run.

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