Continuing from my previous post, where it seems the biggest headache nowadays seems to be the USb thumb drive we all now use very frequently. The one thing which can be done is to disable “Autorun” in your system but I like the autorun feature so my search for a protection from these type of malwares led me to Net-Studio’s USB firewall.
A small and simple software which when installed starts up on system start-up and resides in the tray icon, letting itself known only when a autorun file is trying to run from the USB thumb drive which we have inserted. By doing this it effectively doesn’t allow any malwares to run automatically. Once detected it gives us a option to delete, so just press delete and start using the thumb drive. It is supposed to clean partitions in hard drive similarly affected by this type of autorun malwares but I haven’t tried that yet.
The best thing of all its FREE and it does the Job 
written by Vignesh
\\ tags: autorun virus, usb drive virus, usb firewall
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…).
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: autorun virus, bv:autorun, sdfix, usb drive virus
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