Remove viruses from USB drive (pen drive) without using any antivirus :)

Nowadays there are so many good antivirus present that helps us to protect from viruses.

But these antivirus sometimes doesn’t help to protect from the viruses which comes from usb drives like pendrive, external portable hard disk. Now days popular virus which are spreading through usb drives are like autorun.inf, newfolder.exe

Below I have explain some steps which helps us to remove viruses without using any antivirus..

1. Whenever you insert usb drive in your pc, it shows a windows open and ask you to open the drive. NEVER OPEN USB DRIVE at that time.
2. Open the command prompt

Click start-> run -> type cmd

3. In the command prompt type the drive letter f: i.e. like c,d,e,f u can see drive letter by going on my computer.
4. Now type dir/w/a and press enter. This will display the list of files which are present in the usb drive(pen drive).
5. If you find any unknown file like autorun.inf ,newfolder.exe,svchost.exe… that means pen drive is infected with virus.
6. Now type attrib –r –a –s –h *.* and press enter. This will remove system hidden archive files from the pendrive.
7. Now you can delete any file present in the pendrive, which are unknown and suspicious by typing command del filename. For an e.g. del autorun.inf