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January 26, 2016 How to Remove Shortcut Virus from USB Drives & PC Today I am going to share easy methods on how to remove the stubborn shortcut virus from your USB Drive & PC. We are going to share four simple tricks to remove the shortcut virus from your computer or Pen drive automatically. U USB Drives, especially those which we used on public computers such as in schools, Internet cafes, hotels etc, are very susceptible to contamination by viruses present on other users of the machine devices. One of the most common is the “shortcut virus” that creates many unwanted icons on your USB device while hidden files that really matter; hindering or even preventing, the access to them. The first thing to notice if you had installed the shortcut virus in your system is that it will be not get removed by your normal antivirus scanning it’s somehow stubborn. Shortcut virus usually creates the shortcut files, for example, Notepad.shortcut etc. So if yo...

Try to kill first the Autorun file.  Follow the steps below to do that:  Step 1:  Click on the below link and download the file "AutorunExterminator"  http://en.kioskea.net/download/download-11613-autorun-exterminator   Extract it --> Double-click on "AutorunExterminator" --> Plug your External  hard drive now.  This will remove the autorun.inf files from your External hard drive and also from  the drives.  Step 2:  Click on "Start" -->Run --> type cmd and click on OK.  Here I assume your External hard drive as G:  Enter this command.  attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.*  You can copy the above command --> Right-click in the Command Prompt and  paste it.  Note : Replace the letter g with your External hard drive letter.  Now check for your files in External Drive.  Step 3:  After that, download the Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from the below link  http://en.kioskea.net/download/dow...

Posted on   Wednesday, December 10, 2008   by   Kaushik Patowary   Pen drives are so small that they can be easily misplaced and even lost. How do you make sure that your lost drive is returned to you by the finder? Leave you name and contact info in the drive? Yes, but we will do it a different way. First we will look at a software that displays a message when a pen drive is accessed, and then we will implement the same thing with our own coding. USB Lost and Found  is an interesting piece of software that informs the finder of a lost pen drive about the rightful owner of the drive. The free edition of this software can display a user configured message whenever the USB drive is accessed. The tool is actually quite simple: it creates an executable application called “setup.exe” on the root of the pen drive, that displays an alert box with the owner’s email or phone number, and then causes this application to auto launch by creating an auto.ini ...

Autorun virus, as the name suggests it uses the Autorun.inf feature in the Windows Os that is used for launching the programs that are stored in the removable media such as DVDs, USB Devices, CD ROMs, as well as Memory Sticks. If there is  autorun.inf virus  in USB drive, each time you insert the removable media and double-click your drives to open it, virus files begin executing and infect your computer: which spreads itself onto the computer by making the multiple copies of the autorun.inf and .exe files on every drive of your computer. When your computer is infected, viruses might clandestinely connect to the malicious web site and install the key logger on your PC. the key logger steal all your private information like usernames, account numbers, social security, passwords, credit card information, as well as other sensitive information. It is thus very important for you to remove the Autorun virus from computer Below is a guide to delete the  autorun.inf virus...