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Nowadays pen drives have become one of the most easiest carriers of various types of viruses.

I will tell you how pen drives normally infect your computer systems and how can you open pen drive safely and back up your important data.

How virus in pen drive infects a computer

The most easiest way for all virus to infect your computer from a pen drive|flash drive|memory stick|portable drive or devices is with the help of your double click to open the media.

There is a system, hidden and read only file that almost every virus creates to point out the main virus file and thus execute with the help of your double click. When a user double click the pen drive|flash drive|memory stick|portable drive or devices the file autorun.inf will run and point out the main virus and copies the file to your computer with the help of the malicious scripts written in the file autorun.inf

The image below shows the Autorun file entries in some special characters when you right click on the drive.



Below are the methods to follow to be protected from the virus attacks through pen drive|flash drive|memory stick|portable drive or devices




1. Disable Autorun on Your Pen Drive:
* Open to Start >> Run and type “gpedit.msc” (without quotes) and press enter. This will open Group policy editor.

* Browse to Administrative templates >> System >> double click on Turn off Autoplay click on Enabled and Under Settings >> Select All Drives in the drop down and click OK (as shown in the image below)



2. Scan Your Pen Drive:

Whenever you insert your pen drive / flash drive / memory stick / portable drive or devices into the USB port of your system, make sure to run a virus scan with your anti virus before opening your pen drive contents in windows explorer.

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3. Use FreeCommander:

FreeCommander is again a file explorer like windows explorer, so you just need to download it by clicking here and install it.

After installing open your pen drive through FreeCommander (as shown in the image below)



Check if there are some additional files like autorun.inf , Funny UST Scandal.avi.exe ,Ravmon.exe ,New Folder.exe etc or any other file which you have not copied or created, delete all these suspicious files on your pen drive.

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