Dear All,
Please find herewith some useful information.
How to prevent your PEN drive from VIRUS
Friends many of your PC/laptop's normally gets virus because of Pen Drives or
USB devices (Even PC's who are not connected to network ). Some Virus like
Ravmon Virus , Heap41a worm which are not detected by anti virus normally
spreads mostly by the Pen Drives . In such a case what can you do to prevent
your PC from getting infected with Virus that spreads through USB devices or
Pen Drives ?
You can protect your PC by just following the simple steps below . It won't
take much time.
a.. Connect your Pen Drive or USB drive to your computer .
a.. Now a dialogue window will popup asking you to choose among the
options as shown in the figure. Don't choose any of them , Just simply click
Cancel.
a.. *Now go to Start--> Run and type cmd to open the Command Prompt window .
b.. *Now go to My Computer and Check the Drive letter of your USB drive or
Pen Drive. ( E.g. If it is written Kingston (I:) , then I: will be the drive
letter .)
c.. *In the Command Window ( cmd ) , type the drive letter: and Hit Enter .
d.. *Now type dir/w/o/a/p and Hit Enter
e.. *You will get a list of files . In the list , search if anyone of the
following do exist
f.. 1. Autorun.inf
g.. 2. New Folder.exe
h.. 3. Bha.vbs
i.. 4. Iexplore.vbs
j.. 5. Info.exe
k.. 6. New_Folder.exe
l.. 7. Ravmon.exe
m.. 8. RVHost.exe or any other files with .exe Extension .
n..
o.. If you find any one of the files above , Run the command attrib -h -r -s
-a *.* and Hit Enter.
p.. Now Delete each File using the following Command del filename ( E.g del
autorun.inf ) .
q.. 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 .
This virus is very very common now...
To know whether ur system is infected just type C:\heap41a in the address bar...
if there is a folder named heap41a, then ur system is infected...
(AVAST antivirus is the best solution for this worm...) symantec also works.
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