Remove Virus

thumb drive virus spread mostly by using autorun.inf file on the root directory of your thumb drive. you can check whether that file exist in your thumb drive by typing ��dir f: /a/p�� on the command prompt if your thumb drive is drive F. Disable autorun.inf of your windows XP by doing the following: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf] @="@SYS:DoesNotExist" paste the text above into a file call da.reg and double click it . If registry editor was disable by the virus, do the following : click start, run, highlight and paste the following into it : REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f Please be remind that there are viruses that hide your folder and create a .exe file (that is a virus) on your thumb drive : example : if you have a folder call mp3, it will create a file call mp3.exe with an icon that looks like a folder, you can check whether this kind of virus exist by typing ��dir/a/p�� on your command prompt. some virus create a directory call ��recycler�� on your thumb drive and hide inside, remove that directory with the command ��rd /s recycler�� on your command prompt (you can only see the directory using the dir/a/p command) The best and only way to prevent thumb drive virus is to use Linux only to open your thumb drive, puppylinux is a good one.