January jingles… Firewalling ur USB Drive…
Feb 01

Nowadays I am more apprehensive of my desktops and laptop getting infected a USB thumb drive more than from the Internet. Almost most of these viruses uses the now infamous ‘autorun.inf’ to get into the system. Last week a infected usb drive infected one of my desktops running on Windows XP .The Avast HE anti-virus was unable to detect the virus in the PC but detected the virus in the USB drive as BV:Autorun-G worm .The problem was the source inside the PC couldn’t be found but the virus in the USB drive was only being detected.

After lots of searching through the World Wide Web, I came across SDFix. A small software which extracted itself to C:\SDFix. Then  I restarted the PC and booted in Safe Mode (Press F8 while in the Windows Logo screen). And inside the C:\SDFix folder ran the file “runthis.bat” . After asking for a confirmation message and almost 20 minutes after ,it showed a report that almost 3 viruses were removed. And after restarting the PC in normal mode, my desktop is normal again (so far…).

sdfix

My kudos to the developer AndyManchesta and it is supposed to work for many trojans, worms and other malwares.

A more detailed step-by-step information is available here.

And you can download SDFix here.

written by Vignesh \\ tags: , , ,


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