Comments on: Prevent Spread of Viruses through Removable Drives with iKill

By: rakesh

rakesh — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:52:34 +0000

just create folder named “autorun.inf” in your pendrive the virus will not over right this and u will be safe…….

By: Virus Removal

Virus Removal — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:19:12 +0000

Hey, hopefully someone can make use of this :)

If you are having issues running virus scanners whilst your computer is turned on, try to start into ‘Safe Mode’.

If you’re using a version of Windows, you’ll be able to do this. (Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7)

Safe Mode:
Turn computer off
Turn computer on whilst tapping F8. When prompted select ‘safe mode with networking’
When prompted, click Yes & start into Windows as normal.

By: rAmbo

rAmbo — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:35:53 +0000

the antivirus is something other stuff.
But this tool specialy focus on USB drives so it is diffrent from antivirus..
Antivirus is good but it is diffrent so use it also

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:13:25 +0000

Thank u a lot man very helpful .

By: Christophe

Christophe — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:43:57 +0000

Moi j’utilise Anti-Autorun.inf, c’est un petit programme que j’allume à chaque fois que je branche un clé USB qui a été connecté sur un autre pc que le mien, il est gratuit, ne nécessite pas d’installation et se trouve ici : delphiblog.site.voila.fr/pages/programme_135_anti_autorun_inf.html
Il renome autorun.inf dès qu’il le détecte et ensuite le virus ne se lance plus quand je clique sur ma clé. Depuis que je l’utilise, j’ai plus de problème.

By: sunkumar kothari

sunkumar kothari — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:54:56 +0000

thi s is new to me i will be installing it

By: Miguel Sebastian

Miguel Sebastian — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:14:45 +0000

I think this can cause false positive if you have autorun.inf for a menu on your flashdrives which you can accidentally delete. I recommend turning autorun via group policy editor via gpedt.msc.

Another neat thing I do is to create a autorun.inf folder at the root of every drive and make it readonly/system/hidden to prevent worms also called immunization but found software doing it so credit goes to anyone.

1. Click start menu then run.
2. Type cmd click ok
3. at the prompt type \\\”cd\\\\\\\” without the quotes then press enter.
4. again type \\\”md autorun.inf\\\” press enter
5. type \\\”attrib +h +r +s autorun.inf\\\”

do this to every drive regardless of being removable or fixed and it\\\’ll immunize your system from autorun worms.

autorun is a microsoft feature that is also used maliciously by worm creators.

never like autorun so I never used it IMHO