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Friday, April 10, 2009

Checking Pen Drive for Virus Manually - Second Task

OK !!! After the first step now check for the directories....
Follow these steps-

1. In command prompt with pen drive as current directory (Ex. G:\>)
2. Now type dir/ah to see all directories(including hidden ones).
3. Remove directories like Autorun, System, Recycle and other unknown directories
by following command
rmdir/s "folder name" (without quotes)
4. Now there are no more viruses in your pen drive and you can freely open it.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Checking Pen Drive for Virus Manually - First task

Follow these steps:
1. Plug in your pen drive.
2. Go to Start, Run, type cmd and press enter.
3. In command prompt enter the drive name for pen drive and press enter(Ex- "f:" and press enter)
4. Now type attrib to see all files with their attributes.
S- denotes system file
H- denotes hidden file
R- denotes read-only.
5. Check for files with .exe, .vbe, .bat, .com extensions. These may be viruses.
6. Any unrecognised file must be deleted.
7. To delete the file
with SHR attributes type del/ah/f filename.extension and press enter
without " type del filename.extension and press enter
8. You can remove autorun.inf file also coz it is also usually infected.

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