By Chinmaya Sahoo One of the ways by which a virus can infect your PC is through USB/Pen drives. Common viruses such as ’ Ravmon ’ , ‘ New Folder.exe ’, ‘ Orkut is banned ’ etc. are spreading through USB drives. Most anti virus programs are unable to detect them and even if they do, in most cases they are unable to delete the file, only quarantine it. Here are the things which you can do if you want to remove such viruses from your USB drives.... of course! without using an Antivirus program. 1. Whenever you plug a USB drive in your system, an Autoplay window will appear similar to the one shown below : 2. Don’t click on any Option choose Cancel ( Win XP) or Close the window (Win 7) 3. Open the Command Prompt by typing ‘ cmd ‘ in the Run box. 4. In the command prompt type the " drive letter: " ( i.e A: or H: ), the drive refers to the name of your USB drive and press Enter. 5. Now type " dir /w/a " and pr...
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