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Thumbdrive, Pendrive, Flashdrive or Whatever You Call It: Pendrive Virus

This document discusses the dangers of viruses that can infect USB flash drives and spread to computers. It explains that newly created viruses may not be detected by antivirus software. It warns that automatically opening and running files from a flash drive, such as through the autorun.inf file, allows viruses to easily execute. It provides steps to reveal hidden infected files using command prompt commands and delete the files to disinfect an infected flash drive.

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Thumbdrive, Pendrive, Flashdrive or Whatever You Call It: Pendrive Virus

This document discusses the dangers of viruses that can infect USB flash drives and spread to computers. It explains that newly created viruses may not be detected by antivirus software. It warns that automatically opening and running files from a flash drive, such as through the autorun.inf file, allows viruses to easily execute. It provides steps to reveal hidden infected files using command prompt commands and delete the files to disinfect an infected flash drive.

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Thumbdrive, Pendrive, Flashdrive or

Whatever You Call It: Pendrive Virus


By funtikar | Studymode.com
We all know that any type of !" #ass !tora$e %evi&e is sus&eptible to a virus infe&tion' Yes
we do have (ntivirus,you have )Insert your best bet (V name*,but at some time the virus &an
and will bypass the se&urity measure that have been pla&ed by our se&urity system software'
We also have to remember that the av+s rely heavily on its database si$nature of virus' This
means if your system is to be infe&ted by a newly &rafted virus ,&han&es are your av won+t
dete&t it at all eventhou$h its e,uipped with a hi$hly advan&ed heuristi& s&anner' -nou$h with
the bull' What i+m really tryin$ to say is how dan$erous it is for us to double &li&k./0pen/ your
pendrive+s drive in /#y Computer/ ri$ht after you plu$$ed in your !" stora$e devi&e' When
you double &li&k or /0pen/ ,you are a&tually tryin$ to laun&h the virus itself embedded in the
!" stora$e devi&e or more spe&ifi&ally you are a&tually e1&utin$ the pro$ram stated in the file
named autorun'inf'e1ample of the &ontent of the autorun'inf file: )autorun*
open2y1&m'e1e
This is the only way a virus &an move,run or to be e1&e&uted' !o this method of propa$ation
hi$hly depends if the host has the followin$'' et& weak av,unupdated av,&omputer illiterate user'
We &an safely say that every infe&ted !" stora$e devi&e have both autorun'inf and atleast an
e1e&utable' sually these two files are e1tra hidden and &an only be seen usin$ the Command
Prompt' To see the hidden files usin$ the &ommand prompt' 3aun&h the &ommand prompt by
&li&kin$ the !tart button and in the te1t bo1 type /&md/ and press enter4without the ,uotes5'
From there type the letter of your pendrive 4assumin$ that you have already plu$$ed in your
pendrive5 then &olon 4sta&ked full6stop si$n5 pro&eed by pressin$ enter , for e1ample F:
it should now display F:78
now you are at the root' to see the hidden files type
%I9 .(:
This will list all the files that are e1tra hidden' In our &ase4an infe&ted pendrive5 would usually
show somethin$ like this
;<.=>.=;?? ;@:;; P# =<;,;A@ autorun'inf
;B.?C.=;?? ??:=> (# BCD,BBC y1&m'e1e
to delete these files you have to unhide them first' Whi&h you &an do by typin$ the &ommand :
(TT9I" 6! 6: filename'e1t
for e1ample the file y1&m'e1e you would type
(TT9I" 6! 6: y1&m'e1e
its that simple' (TT9I" a&tually stands for attribute the si$n 465 means to disable ,to enable use
4E5,! stands for !ystem fla$,: stands for :idden fla$,and at the end of it is the parameter or the
file name and its e1tension' after you have done this then you &an delete them' to delete them
you &an use the &ommand %-3' The synta1 is %-3 )file name*
in our &ase %-3 y1&m'e1e
and
%-3 autorun'inf
There are plenty of other &ommands that i havent show yet but this is the end

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