Tuesday, October 20, 2009

How to protect your pc from usb drive virus

Most of the usb drive viruses infects your pc when you just insert it into the computer and the "open file" window appears automatically. This functionality executes the file autorun.inf from your usb drive and the virus residing inside the autorun.inf infects your pc. The very first step you should take to protect your pc is to disable the autorun feature. The most easy way to disable autorun is to download and install TweakUI . You can very easily disable the autorun feature using this software. This software also provide many additional features that makes your pc run faster through a very easy to use interface.
Next , do a virus scan on your usb drive using the usb virus scanner
if you try to remove the infected files manually , most of the time you can not delete it, even if you can delete it will come back after a few seconds. Most recent viruses keeps a copy of it inside the memory and recreates itself whenever you try to delete the infected file manually. So , always try to remove the infected files using a good virus scanner.