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amit.sirsi · 14-04-2008, 03:56 PM

hi,

here is a simple way to stay safe form viruses that intrude through USB drives.

Most of there viruses will not be detected by any of the antivirus programs. So I foundout my own way.

go to Start>Run; type cmd and hit enter. This opens command line interface. Change your drive to the drive as thatof usb drive. you can see the drive letter in win explorer. eg: i:
then type attrib - *.* and peress enter. if it has a virus it shows two hidden fies one obviously autorun.inf and another .exe file. now in command line interface type attrib -h -s *.* and press enter. Go to the usb drive in windows explorer, make sure you do not double click it or rt. click open it. select the two files and delete them.

14-04-2008, 03:56 PM	#15 (permalink)
amit.sirsi Right Off the Assembly Line Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 15	Re: Avoid USB devices Virus / Worms hi, here is a simple way to stay safe form viruses that intrude through USB drives. Most of there viruses will not be detected by any of the antivirus programs. So I foundout my own way. go to Start>Run; type cmd and hit enter. This opens command line interface. Change your drive to the drive as thatof usb drive. you can see the drive letter in win explorer. eg: i: then type attrib - . and peress enter. if it has a virus it shows two hidden fies one obviously autorun.inf and another .exe file. now in command line interface type attrib -h -s . and press enter. Go to the usb drive in windows explorer, make sure you do not double click it or rt. click open it. select the two files and delete them.