If you used pendrive then you came across this virus i.e Autorun.inf. Autorun.inf is the famous virus that can be easily transfer through our pendrives without any notification. Some of the anti virus can detect and most of them are not.
Some behavior after infected to your PC:
1. No drives will not open or No drives will directly open i.e when you double click on the drives it will not opens i think this is the main symptom or behaviour of the autorun virus.
2. System slow down and some other
How can we delete Autorun.inf Virus manually
We can delete autorun.inf virus in many ways but today i am showing the most efficient method for deleting autorun virus from our PC as well as pendrive too.
The below steps helps in deleting autorun.inf virus:
1. Open RUN (win key+R)
2. type CMD (commend)
3. the default address will be
C:usersarun>_
(may changes “Arun” to your username in your system)
so type as below if we want to delete virus form “D” drive
C:usersarund:
{ it will changes drive “C” to “D” drive }
4. then it will be displayed as
D:>
5. Then here onwords our real process starts. The above 4 steps are those who don’t know how to work with command prompt.
6. type the below command to check wheather virus is affected are not see now we are checking for “D” drive
D:>attrib
click enter
7. After clicking enter the result will be displayed on command prompt check for Autorun.inf in that result if present follow below steps
type below commands
D:> attrib -s -a -r -h autorun.inf
click enter
D:> del autorun.inf
click enter
8. After doing that check once again wheather it is deleted or not by typing
D:> attrib
it will not displays “autorun.inf” file because it is deleted by the above steps if it is presents repeat the above steps again.
9. Do for all the drives as shown above
Tips:
+ Please don’t try to open your drives in the middle steps until all the steps completed otherwise the virus will be moved to your cleaned drives form the infected drives
+ Type the command every time when you inserted your pendrive
I:> attrib
click enter
this command checks the autorun virus if present within a second
+ Turn off your Autorun function
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Remove autorun.inf virus manually.
1). Go to any folder.In that on the top menu go to Tools–> Folder Options, which will be beside File, Edit, View, Favourites.
2). A window pops up after you click on folder options.In that window go to View tab and select the option Show hidden files and folders.Now uncheck the option Hide protected Operating system files.Click Ok
3). Now Open your drives (By right click and select Explore. Don’t double click!) Delete autorun.inf and MS32DLL.dll.vbs or MS32DLL.dll (use Shift+Delete as it deletes files forever.) in all drives include Handy Drive and Floppy disk.
4). Open folder C:WINDOWS to delete MS32DLL.dll.vbs or MS32DLL.dll (Use Shift+Delete ) 5). Go to start –> Run –> Regedit and the Registry editor will open
6). Now navigate in the left pane as follows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE –> Software –> Microsoft –> Windows –> Current Version –> Run .Now delete the entry MS32DLL (Use Delete key on keyboard)
7). Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER –> Software –> Microsoft –> Internet Explorer –> Main and delete the entry Window Title “Hacked by Godzilla”
8). Now open the group policy editor by typing gpedit.msc in Start –> run and pressing enter.
9). Go to User Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> System. Double Click on entry Turn Off Autoplay then Turn Off Autoplay Properties will display.Do as follows: Select Enabled
10). Select All drives and Click OK
11). Now go to start –> Run and type msconfig there and press Enter.A system configuration utility dialogue will open.
12). Go to startup tab in it and uncheck MS32DLL .Now click Ok and when the system configuration utility asks for restart ,click on exit without restart.
13). Now go to Tools –> Folder Options on the top menu of some folder again and select the Do not show Hidden files and check Hide operating system files.
14). Go to your recyclable bin and empty it to prevent any possiblity of MS322DLL.dll.vbs lying there.
Now restart your PC once and you can now open your hard disk drives by double clicking on them
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