Saturday, July 10, 2010

autorun.inf virus(hidden file)

This is a common virus in ya drives it copy itself in all ya drives, usb, cellphones, cameras so if you have this on ya pc, means everything that was plugged in ya pc is infected, follow these steps to remove...

go to start click run type cmd than enter
type cd\ than enter
to view the virus type in dir /ah you see autorun.inf and a number on its left
type attrib -h -r -s autorun.inf than enter
type del autorun.inf than enter
type md autorun.inf than enter
thats it, remember never remove the folder that was created

note that you need to boot in safe mode than follow the steps above to remove from usb flashs(to go to a flash simply type cd\ enter than e: enter or f: etc

in some cases you can kill the explorer.exe from task manager but i recomend to booth in safe mode, try also killing ctfmon.exe before removal if it fails

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