Remove Virus Using Command Prompt

If you're a pc user then you must aware of the term called antivirus.Virus is such a thing every pc/tablet/smart phone users are always being afraid of that.As it is such a thing which can easily destroy your entire system and can also do some other harms onto your system too.So what if your antivirus can't be able to catch the virus you bet you have onto your system or you just got your usb drive from such a place you know virus are there,but your antivirus can't be able to get that?There you need to use command prompt to remove or delete the virus.

So her today we're going to share a trick using which you'll not only be able to remove or destroy virus from your pc system using command box but also you'll be able to remove any unwanted files or folders from your drive too.

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Remove Unwanted Files from Your Pendrive/ USB Drive without Opening It

First Insert your Virus infected Pendrive and Scan for virus if detected then well and good otherwise go ahead to remove it from command prompt.

In this case(as per the below screenshot) it has detected the virus even though we would like to show you, how to remove this virus using command prompt?

As per the screenshot antivirus installed on this system has detected autorun.inf file.

This is the file; if you try to open it then your system may get fully infected by that virus.

So,now let it remove using command prompt without opening USB Drive.so for that you just need to follow the steps below.

• First open command prompt and go to the virus infected drive by typing “Drive name with colon” (H: ) then enter.
• Next type attrib -s -h *.* /s /d and enter. And continue by typing “dir” which will show you all files/folders in that drive, as you can see that autorun.inf files is present in this drive.

• Now if you want to delete it then just type “DEL autorun.inf (i.e. name of file/folder to be deleted)” or rename it to delete it manually.

To rename the file just type in command prompt

REN “Path of files/folder to be deleted” (space) “Name to be given”

Or if you are in that drive using command prompt then type

REN “Name of files to be deleted” (space) “Name to be given”

• Now you can check that autorun.inf has been rename as useless

• Now if you will scan USB Drive then your antivirus won’t show virus in that drive.

•  Now if you wish then you can delete this file after opening the PenDrive/USB drive.

You may not go for such a large procedure to delete any virus affected file if you have daily updated antivirus,but this is quite useful when one of your folder is giving you trouble by hanging your system when you open that folder.



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