Prevent Virus spreading through Removable Drives
A USB drive of any kind, a pendrive, ipod, mp3 Players, mobile phones, all may contain viruses, they just act as carriers, the viruses/trojans exploit the autorun.inf file to execute themselves whenever you try to open the drive by double clicking. They even mayshadow the Open, Explore, Search, etc, other features using the shell commands.. like..
shellExplorecommand = virus.exe
Here, when you right click on the drive icon and click on Explore, virus.exe would be launched,infecting the whole system, and then it will start spreading by any means possible…
So, there is another program called ikill which parses the autorun.inf for you and deletes the virus/trojans.
ikill is an application works by scanning the drives for the presence of removable drives.
If found, it parses the autorun.inf file for the executables it may run.
If AutoProtect is enabled, it will automatically delete the files present on the drive.
otherwise, you will be asked if you want the suspected files deleted.
There is no use of the autorun.inf in you removable drive. (It is rarely used by some applications to provide some added functionality, like the Wireless Config tool to help setup a home network. But, the applications are limited.) , you can safely delete it.
iKill works on Windows 98, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. The minimum hardware requirements to run iKill is 400MHz processor and 96MB of Ram. For Windows operating system that is lower than Vista, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is required.You can download .NET framework 2.0 from here
iKill is very similar to what USB FireWall does and it takes up very little memory .Try it, and if you don’t like it, just use a simple registry tweak to totally disable Windows from processing autorun.inf file.
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