Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Prevent Pendrive/PCs/laptops from virus !

Friends many of your PC/laptop's normally gets virus because of Pen Drives or USB devices (Even PCs who are not connected to network ). Some Virus like Ravmon Virus , Heap41a worm which are not detected by anti virus normally spreads mostly by the Pen Drives . In such a case what can you do to prevent your PC from getting infected with Virus that spreads through USB devices or Pen Drives ?

You can protect your PC by just following the simple steps below . It won't take much time. 
 
Connect your Pen Drive or USB drive to your computer . Now a dialogue window will popup asking you to choose among the options as shown in the figure. 
     
 
 Don't choose any of them , Just simply click Cancel.             

 ->*Now go to Start--> Run and type cmd to open the Command Prompt window ..                                  
 ->*Now go to My Computer and Check the Drive letter of your USB drive or Pen Drive. ( E.g. If it is written Kingston        (I:) , then I: will be the drive letter ..)                                                  
 >*In the Command Window ( cmd ) , type the drive letter: and Hit Enter ..                                                                                                                        
*Now type dir/w/o/a/p and Hit Enter  
*You will get a list of files . In the list , search if anyone of the following do exist   
      1.        Autorun.inf
      2.        New Folder.exe
      3.        Bha.vbs
      4.        Iexplore.vbs
      5.        Info.exe
      6.        New_Folder.exe 
      7.        Ravmon.exe 
      8.        RVHost.exe or any other files with .exe Extension .   

If you find any one of the files above , Run the command attrib -h -r -s -a *.* and Hit Enter. 
Now Delete each File using the following Command del filename ( E.g del autorun.inf ) . 
That's it . Now just scan your USB drive with the anti virus you have to ensure that you made your Pen Drive free of Virus . 
Frnds,This virus is very very common now...
To know whether ur system is infected just type C:\heap41a in the address bar...
if there is a folder named heap41a, then  ur system is infected...
(AVAST antivirus is the best solution for this worm...) symantec also works.
  


~ We hate virus bcoz we  LOVE PC. ~