Tricks to remove autorun.inf virus from usb or in any of the drive. The autorun.inf file executes before any program load into memory. It loads all the programs listed in this file. Steps to removes this virus –
- First locate the autorun.inf.
- Now open this file into notepad and see the content.
- You will find that some .EXE files are mentioned in this autorun.inf file.
- These all files are executes along with this file.
- Now, try to remove the .EXE file name in autorun.inf file.
- If the file is not updated or used by any of the process. then try to remove .EXE file in the usb or drive that is infected by autorun virus.
- Now delete autorun.inf file, it’s removed now.
- Finish