Get Idea On Virus Removal If Your System Is Infected By A Pendrive Virus

If you have not been careful and inserted your pen drive in a computer that had virus and then inserted the pen drive in your system, your system will surely catch the virus. Note that the pen-drive virus is actually a kind of a Trojan horse that gets a system infected through any flash or removable drive. What the virus does is get many files created on the hard drive that is infected. These files are stored in the valid file as well as folder names. The users having pen drive virus infected machines will be plagued by files that appear and disappear for no valid reason. If you want help in detecting and removing the pen drive virus, you have to get in touch with a UK PC support provider.

The user has to first insert the pen drive in the computer's USB slot and wait. If you find a dialog box appear, you have to select the option cancel. Make sure you do not double click on the drive icon for opening the drive. Click on the My Computer icon available on the desktop and then select the option Tools and proceed to choose from the menu bar Folder Options and View. Choose the button next to the option Show hidden files and folders. Uncheck the boxes for the options Hide extensions for known files and Hide protected operating system files (Recommended). In case, the user gets a warning message, he/she needs to click on OK and then save the changes made by clicking on Apply and then on OK. If you have any problems while following the instructions, you can contact UK computer services without hesitation.

Get the drive letter that represents your pen drive verified; you will know the letter by opening My Computer. Suppose it's Kingston (M:), the drive letter in this case will be M. You must click on Start and then access Run. In the run dialog, the user has to type cmd and then hit the Enter key for opening the command prompt window. Now you have to carefully type the drive letter; for instance, M: and then hit Enter to gain access to the root directory of the drive. If you are stuck anywhere, a UK computer help service will prove to be helpful.

If you want to see files and folders contained in the pen drive, just type dir/w/o/a/p and press Enter. This will display the contents. Now type attrib -h -r -s autorun.inf and then press Enter for unprotecting the files so that they can be deleted. Now delete the files that are unprotected by first typing del and leaving a space and then typing the name of the file.

Finally type exit and then hit Enter for returning to the Windows operating system. This will get the pen drive virus removed and restore the computer system in its functioning order. If you find that problems still persist, then a UK online tech support provider can surely solve the problem.

The UK virus removal services are very effective in removing very harmful viruses from the system. There are many good UK computer repair services available to help computer users when their systems are not functioning well.