swati16
Member
Trick to block attack through autorun.inf virus Hi,
Since many of us knows that all the viruses are in some .exe or .bat file hidden and spread rapidly through pendrives(removable media/HDD).
although decent antivirus track/remove the actual exe/bat virus file and hence it is important to block autorun.inf file hidden on pendrive.
Hence i found this trick to block attack through autorun.inf viruses.
In XP explorer goto Tools->Folder Options->File Types-> Select INF from Extensions list and click Advanced Button.
Now Remove Install, Open Actions from Actions List. and Click OK. Reboot the PC.
Thats it your computer is now protected from unwanted autorun.inf file attacks from any removable media.
do't worry you can always manually open a valid media(driver cd, game setup cd etc.) by browsing to setup file.
Note: This will not remove virus from PC which is already infected by some virus but it will only prevent the autorun.inf (or any .inf) file to run that may have executable virus file path.
Since many of us knows that all the viruses are in some .exe or .bat file hidden and spread rapidly through pendrives(removable media/HDD).
although decent antivirus track/remove the actual exe/bat virus file and hence it is important to block autorun.inf file hidden on pendrive.
Hence i found this trick to block attack through autorun.inf viruses.
In XP explorer goto Tools->Folder Options->File Types-> Select INF from Extensions list and click Advanced Button.
Now Remove Install, Open Actions from Actions List. and Click OK. Reboot the PC.
Thats it your computer is now protected from unwanted autorun.inf file attacks from any removable media.
do't worry you can always manually open a valid media(driver cd, game setup cd etc.) by browsing to setup file.
Note: This will not remove virus from PC which is already infected by some virus but it will only prevent the autorun.inf (or any .inf) file to run that may have executable virus file path.
