It’s a common problem that most of our computers get infected by viruses that usually spread through pendrives or USB drives and in some cases Viruses like Ravmon Virus , Heap41a worm which are not detected by anti virus normally spreads. In order to avoid this here is a tip that helps you to stop virus from entering your computer from usb drives.
Connect your Pen Drive or USB drive to your computer . Now a dialogue window will popup asking you to choose among the options. Don’t choose any of them , Just simply click Cancel. Now go to Start–> Run and type cmd to open the Command Prompt window . Now go to My Computer and Check the Drive letter of your USB drive or Pen Drive. In the Command prompt type the drive letter: and Hit Enter . Now type dir/w/o/a/p and Hit Enter You will get a list of files . In the list , search if anyone of the following do exist 1. Autorun.inf 2. New Folder.exe 3. Bha.vbs 4. Iexplore.vbs 5. Info.exe 6. New_Folder.exe 7. Ravmon.exe 8. RVHost.exe or any other files with .exe Extension . If you find any one of the files above , Run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and Hit Enter. Now Delete each File using the following Command del filename ( E.g del autorun.inf ) . That’s it .Now just scan your USB drive with the anti virus you have to ensure that you made your Pen Drive free of Virus . -- Swarandeep Singh Director,Event Management & Finance CSI NSIT Students Branch | http://societies.nsitonline.in/csi Undergraduate Student, IT Department NSIT, Delhi University, India
