Hello friends this is my first post. In this post I am going to show you that hove to remove the residing autorun.inf file even you cleared all the viruses in your pendrive or local drives. This file makes the drives not when we try to open it or when we try to rename the drive it won’t. This file is used by most of the virus authors to reside there work even after the user remove all the viruses from their computer. This file give lots of annoiences. Basically it usally used to call or run the viruses frequently. This file can also be used to work as i said above. To remove this type of files from your computer do the following steps:-
- Click start and then run
- Type cmd to open up the command prompt.
- Change your directory to any on off your directory by using syntax driveletter: For example d:
- Then type the command attrib in the prompt it display the list of executable files in the current directory.
- Check whether autorun.inf file is present or not.
- If not then you are lucky.
- If present then you have to follow all the following steps to remove that file.
- First you have to remove the power it is having for ex read only attribute etc…
- The attribute depends on viruses.
- One common step to remove all its properties is type the following command in the command prompt:- attrib -s -h -r autorun.inf
- -s to remove its system attribute, -h to remove its hidden attribute and -r to remove the read only attribute.
- You can use this steps to remove any of the files which has this properties.
- Remember before doing the above steps you have to remove all the viruses form your computer. I recommend avast home edition which is free and 100% perfect. If you haven’t clean the viruses first clean it because after you delete this file it will automatically creates it without your knowledge.
- Then type the following command:- del autorun.inf.
- Now you have successfully deleted the file after you deleted the file restart your computer or remove your pendrive and plug it again.
In this way you can remove that file. Thanks bey!!!…
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Hi Nice tutorial I had this problem before, and i would like to share how i did it.
Autorun.inf is usually a file containing the information of the program or application to be executed. like when you have windows cd, it will have autorun.inf which would direct you to something like setup.exe.
So first we have to open the autorun.inf file to see what files its been executing and change the attributes of that file or application and del it using cmd prompt.
After deleting that, we have to delete autorun.inf using the attrib commands as mentioned above.
Please note that the system restore must be turned off during this, because virus might get back using the system restore.
After doing the above procedure, reboot the computer, and check the drive again using attrib commands.
I really doubt that this given method will work. What about registry entries? What about other processes supported by it? You are not killing those processes also. It will generate it again. Try to restard the windows you will come to know. Anyway thanx for sharing this.
Thank you Ashok for your information , I have an alternate methed to remove autorun virus, boot linux disk and hunt autorun files in our each drive and delete it , please make reply if any error occured.
Nice Idea . But it is far better to go in safe mode and delete all malicious files.
A little list is here
ymfx2.exe
e2.cmd
net.com
@Ricky, agreed! unless all the related registry entries/batch processes are disabled the Autorun.inf menace is bound to be regenerated again
Could you tell me how to enable autorun..??!!
I mean to say, is there anything through which a file would be executed on its own by just clicking on a link.??
I really need it.
I had tried it before…but
I wasn’t able to change the file permissions of the autorun.inf
i was able to open and edit the autorun.inf but was unable to save it..because of those permissions
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it did not work! i cant delete it, the comand prompt says ” the process can not acsess the file because it is being used by another program!”
i cant stant the virus anymore! anyone know how to fix it, email me please!!!!
Use “Unlocker”(Search the web) to track the process which creates the autorun.ini and it’s executable file. Use msinfo32(if you don’t have any other special tool) to find the file that execute the process. Delete the file(s). Delete all Autorun infecions(autorun.ini + executable file) from all partitions by typing specified partition name in RUN eg: “C:\” . Never double click on drive until you delete Autorun.ini. Restart and see whether Autoruns are created back. If not you r done.
worked but did not undo the effects of that fucking virus.