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how to delete virus w/o using any antivirus programs

January 31, 2008

One of the ways by which a virus can infect your PC is through USB/Flash drives. Common viruses such as ’Ravmon’ , ‘New Folder.exe’, ‘Orkut is banned’ etc are spreading through  USB  drive . Most anti virus programs are unable to detect them and even if they do, in most cases they are unable to delete the file, only quarantine it. Here are the things which you can do if you want to remove such viruses from your USB drives or harddisk. Whenever you plug a USB drive in your system, a window will appear similar to the one shown below

USB

Don’t click on Ok , just choose ‘Cancel’. Open the Command Prompt by typing ‘cmd‘ in the run box. In the command prompt type the drive letter: and press enter . Now type dir /w/a and press enter.

This will display a list of the files in the Flash drive or Hardisk. Check whether the following files are there or not

  • Autorun.inf
  • Ravmon.exe
  • New Folder.exe
  • svchost.exe
  • Heap41a
  • or any other .exe which may be suspicious.

If any of the above files are there, then probably the USB drive is infected. In command prompt type attrib -r -a -s -h *.* and press enter. This will remove the Read Only, Archive, System and hidden file attribute from all the files. Now just delete the files using the command del filename. example del Ravmon.exe. Delete all the files that are suspicious. To be on a safer side, just scan the USB drive with a latest anti-virus program like McAfee or TrendMicro’s PCCillin to check whether it is free of virus or not. Now remove the drive and plug it again. In most of the cases, the real culprit turns out to be the “Autorun.inf” file which mostly gets executed when someone clicks Ok in the dialog window which appears above. Thus the infections can spread…

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How do u delete a virus which pops on ur computer screen saying “driver e not ready “. The name of the virus is commdll.exe.

Posted by mpho at February 18, 2008, 6:44 pm

mpho, that kind of virus is associated with the virus name autorun.inf… try to visit my blogs bout “how to remove autorun.inf virus…

Posted by edzzy at February 18, 2008, 6:59 pm

good day!
i have problem on my pc everytime i click the “my documents” there’s something that appears “say no to drugs” its disappointing i couldn’t open my documents unless if i go to explorer. s it a vrus?

Posted by tomandjerry at March 2, 2008, 5:16 pm

good day!
thanks for the suggested steps. it successfully deleted the autorun.inf,same with Iloveher.exe.

Posted by tomandjerry at March 12, 2008, 3:10 pm

is it 100% effective to delete a virus in a command promt?

Posted by CyberTrust at March 14, 2008, 3:17 pm

my laptop dont save virus but everytime I scan my flash drive with avast the pop up reads virus detected.Its my autorun.inf file which has virus.What should I do?I have tried reformating,running full scans using AVG and Mcafee but no change

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