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[tinoymalayil]

I found one of the simple way to open the USB Drive without affecting any viruses in our Computer.

At first you must Turn off Autoplay before inserting any removable devices.It is because most of the virus are affecting with this autoplay facility of Windows.

Use this method to turn off autoplay..
Enter gpedit.msc in the run or C prompt.then Select the Administration Templates ,then expand that and select System
You can see a Option Turn off AutoPlay..Select that and Select for All drives in the dialogue box to apply for all removable devices.
After inserting the USB Drive..Please donot doubleclick..Please use to Enter the drive name to the address bar(For Eg.If the drive of USB is K then type K:\ press enter)
If you have more ideas about this topic please reply..........

[Alex Cicala]

Normally for vista, the Admin Control "accept or deney" option will popup, surely if there is a virus on the usb this may popup. In this case click deney. But I have never seen a virus been activated by autoplay, autorun.

[rogerthecamel]

Yeah I've seen them before, they are a real pain to get rid of. And once I did manage to delete all trace of it it still opened the floodgates for many other viruses and spyware.

[freeflashclocks]

I never heard of those specific virus, and they must be quite lame to run when the usb runs only, in fact, it sounds just bad, virus have their own level of, lets say, quality, and even the most simple/lamest one, runs when you just plug your pen drive or any other removable media drives.

If you insert a usb drive, if it has a virus, you can forget about what you said here, it will execute itself on the spot, and those usb virus have all kinds of recplication and destruction methods, they do not need you to open or let the usb open itself to execute the rest of the virus code.

But then, i guess is possible to exist such a lame virus, i don't know for sure.

[miladinoski]

Also another way of removing every god-damn ridden virus that 'sits' on your USB thumb drive, is to simply get a live CD of some GNU/Linux distribution (e.g. Ubuntu), put it in, stick the USB thumb drive in the port and format it using the Partition Editor or gparted as it's called.

Worked for my friend!

[frozen.fish]

-Turning off auto run will not stop ALL virus but most.
-You can also right click on the drive and select explore and it will not auto-run anymore.
-You can also use POWERTOYS TWEAKUI to disable it.

-100% PROTECTION from USB virus is only satisfied with using third party USB blocking programs. or use a reliable antivirus instead.
-Also encrypting your USB works.

[k_nitin_r]

tinoymalayil, on Apr 21 2009, 06:12 AM, said:

I found one of the simple way to open the USB Drive without affecting any viruses in our Computer.

Use this method to turn off autoplay..
Enter gpedit.msc in the run or C prompt.then Select the Administration Templates ,then expand that and select System
You can see a Option Turn off AutoPlay..Select that and Select for All drives in the dialogue box to apply for all removable devices.

Does holding down the Shift key while inserting the USB drive stop the autorun? This works for CDROM drives.

BTW, another way you could do this is to use a Linux LiveCD if you want to read the contents of a USB drive - copy the files you need to your hard drive and remove the USB drive when you want to re-boot in Windows.

[The Simpleton]

I suggest that you use a USB drive that has a built-in antivirus program. I'm not sure that all companies have this, but some do, and using them would make sense. The USB 3.0 standard is almost here and that could mean a whole new army of viruses spreading at light-speed! So be warned....

[Sohakes]

This works! There isn't a virus that can execute itself.
What the virus do is that when you plug your usb on a infected computer, the virus copy itself on the usb drive, and makes a entry on autorun.inf!
If you just delete autorun.inf, but keep the virus on the pendrive there is no problem... the virus will not play alone...

I know this because my shcool computers are ALL infected, but here on my home computer there is no viruses! Because i disabled autorun ;D!

To delete the viruses just make the extension of the files appear and show hidden files. Then you delete the files that you dont put on your usb drive ^^!

[Unparallelogram]

There was an outbreak of such a virus at my school this past year. That particular variety would not spread itself if your device already had an autorun.inf file, assuming that it had already spread to the device, and so some clever kids just started carrying around a bogus autorun.inf file on their devices. This is of course no substitute for antivirus and occasional hand auditing, but it reduced a lot of spread between unprotected computers.