How a virus in your pen drive infects?

Most of the active viruses infect your windows system as soon as you double click on the Pen Drive icon in ' my computer'. As virus always creates a autorun.inf file which is a system ,hidden and a read only file on your pen drive. It point to the main virus file which is also located on the pen drive. When user double clicks on the pen drive files pointed by the autorun.inf got executed which copies the virus files on your system.

You can check whether your pen drive infects from a virus or no by right click on the pen drive. The Autorun file entries in some special characters like $%@&* when you right click on the drive.

You can fixed this problem by

1. Scan Your Pen Drive:

• Whenever you insert your pen drive / portable drive into USB port on your system make sure to run a virus scan with your anti virus before opening your pen drive.

2.Disable Autorun on Your Pen Drive:

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• First go to Start --> Run and type gpedit.msc and press Enter. This will open Group policy editor.
• Browse to Administrative templates --> System--> double click on Turn off Autoplay click on Enabled.
• Under Settings --> Select All Drives in the drop down list and click Ok.

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