Autorun.inf

In this blog I will tell you lots of things related to PC & LAPTOPS. I will tell you about games, application, anti-virus etc. You will be told secrets of the PC & LAPTOPS that only few people know. Not only that but some time I will post the solution for troubleshoot that usually occurs in PC.

So, in my first post I would like to start to tell you about viruses, trojans etc........

You must know that in todays world Pen drives & torrent files are the main source for spreading viruses. 

Do you know how virus enter into yours computer as soon as you plug in yours pen drive?

I think most of the people don't know about this. Let me tell you its an autorun.inf file. So how this file installs virus into yours computer as soon as you plug in yours pen drive. You may have noticed that when you insert some software CD, Games CD it automatically opens. Or just take the example of yours motherboard CD. When you have bought PC or LAPTOP you may have got motherboard CD having necessary drivers. So what happen when you insert yours motherboard CD into yours PC. Yes, correct some application automatically opens. Actually whatever application open is written under autorun.inf file. Autorun.inf is automatically executed as soon as you plug any PEN DRIVE or insert any CD. So, virus makes autorun.inf file into PENDRIVES so that when a person will plug his/her PEN DRIVE on any other computer it will automatically install virus on that computer.

So how to stop auto execution of autorun.inf. If you have any good Anti-virus like Kaspersky then there is no problem because they automatically detects for the virus. But what if you have not installed any anti-virus in yours PC or you don't think that yours anti-virus is good enough to detect pen drive viruses.

So, here is the solution. Whenever you plug in yours PEN DRIVE just keep pressed SHIFT button for 5-10 seconds. Yes as soon as you will plugin yours  PEN DRIVE or you insert any CD just keep pressed SHIFT button for 5-10 seconds this will stop auto execution of autorun.inf.

But that's not end here. Naturally you will try to explore the contents of yours PEN DRIVE. Then for that you will go to My Computer and double click on the drive which belongs to PEN DRIVE. But actually if you will even do so then autorun.inf will be executed and virus will be installed again. So better if you don't want autorun.inf to be executed then simply just right click on that drive and click open or explore. Don't click on Autoplay.

Now how to remove this autorun.inf file from yours pen drive?

Remember autorun.inf can only be removed from yours pen drive if yours PC is not infected from any virus. If yours PC has already been infected by any virus then even if you will delete the autorun.inf file, the virus in yours PC will automatically create autorun.inf file in yours PEN DRIVE. So just suppose yours PEN DRIVE has autorun.inf file which has been created by some virus and yours PC has not been infected by any kind of virus. So just go to Command Prompt or DOS. I hope you know how to go to command prompt. Better is to click on Start then click on Run and type COMMAND and click on OK.

A black shell will open. There just go to the drive which belongs to yours PEN DRIVE. Suppose drive E: belongs to yours pen drive. Then just type E: and then press enter.

Now type ATTRIB -S -H -R AUTORUN.INF and press enter

Then type DEL AUTORUN.INF and press enter.

This will successfully delete the autorun.inf file from yours PEN DRIVE.

Now you have made yours PEN DRIVE somewhat safer. But there is still a problem. The problem is that some viruses makes the copy for the folders that is present in yours pendrive and if you will open that it will install virus into yours PC. Actually they looks like folder but they are not actually a folder. May be sometimes you have clicked some folder and it doesn't open. Suppose you have a folder in PEN DRIVE having name GAMES. And few days ago you have inserted yours PEN DRIVE on infected computer. That virus may have created a file having name GAMES which will look exactly like the folder. Yes the icon and name both will look like the same as yours GAMES folder look. And these viruses are so much clever that they actually hide yours GAMES folder so that you can only see one file named GAMES which looks similar to yours folder GAMES and on clicking it will install virus on that computer. So I will suggest you to better scan yours PEN DRIVE from any anti-virus.