Nowadays the major cause of my system getting infected with virus is from the USB drives.When the USB drives are plugged into a computer previously infected with a virus then these viruses are automatically copied to the drives along with autorun.inf file.The virus infects all executable files in my flash drive, then creates a hidden autorun.inf file at the roof of the pendrive.
The autorun.inf file is useful only when an installer can automatically start the installation of the setup program when a disc is inserted.Turning off the autoplay also doesn’t prevent the autorun file from executing.
Raymond has found out a registry hack which will allow you to to globally block autorun.inf from automatically executing.Open notepad and copy the code below and save it as AutorunHack.reg file instead of .txt file.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionIniFileMappingAutorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
Open this AutorunHack.reg file and click Yes if you’re asked “Are you sure you want to add the information in AutoRunHack.reg to the registry?”.Next time you insert a USB drive into your system then Windows will not execute the information in any autorun.inf file that may be present.
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damn good work dude
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Hi. When I click 'Yes" to access the registry it says I can't access the registry.
hi.. pls do a search on how you would remove a certain virus named tbpoixx.exe, tbpoix.exe and x.exe.. they are all diff. viruses and they came with the autorun.inf virus.. it makes all of my files in the pendrive hidden, making it not accessible even though you can view your hidden folders..