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Vaccinate your Computer and USB with Panda USB Vaccine

There is no doubt that the USB drives are the prime reason for the spread of the viruses and malware from one system to the other. Have you ever noticed that this spread is initiated by a file called Autorun.inf?

So that means if we can disable this autorun.inf file then our system would get protected [...]

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Disable Autorun.inf Creation in USB Pen Drives

Autorun.inf is the popular file created by the viruses in the USB Flash drives which is used by them to spread across different storage media.
It is the first file that gets created in the pen drives as soon as the drive is inserted in the system having viruses. Thus it is for sure that if [...]

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Disable Auto Execution of Autorun.inf

If you have come across pen drive viruses then you must have seen this file called Autorun.inf. This is a file that stores the instructions to be carried when you double click your USB drive which in turn leads to the execution of the virus stored there.

However you can prevent the most of the computer [...]

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Delete Virus from USB Pen Drive automatically with iKill

USB Drives are the primary cause of spread of viruses. There are so many viruses that use Pen Drive as a media to infect other computers.
It is also very difficult to safeguard our self from each of them as the chances of getting infected by a virus is always there; no matter you know how [...]

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Remove Sysdate.exe Virus

Recently my computer was infected with this virus called Sysdate.exe that was inside the Recycler folder in the C: drive. I knew that it was a virus since my PC didn’t have the Recycler folder earlier. Thus the location of the virus was C:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-8324555943-4443154761-431384085-6428\sysdate.exe
Symptoms of this virus:
•    In the Recycler folder there was another folder [...]

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Detect and Protect Against Autorun.inf Virus in USB Drive

Almost all of us have come across this Autorun.inf virus file that infects our system from the USB drive. Autorun.inf is a file that contains instructions or commands of how the virus should be executed to infect Windows.

Thus protection against Autorun.inf is as important as it is against any virus. But it is quite difficult [...]

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Change Default Drive Icon of USB Pen Drive

Tired of seeing the same old boring drive icon when you insert your USB pen drive in the computer? Here is a simple and easy trick that will bring life to the icon you see whenever you insert your drive.

The trick is very easy and you can put any pic of yours to the icon [...]

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Steps to Remove DriveGuard.exe or FlashGuard.exe Virus

One of our readers wanted to know the method to remove DriveGuard.exe virus which is also known by the names FlashGuard.exe and DriveMonitor.exe. So here goes the solution that is bit different from the other virus removal methods.

What DriveGuard.exe does?
•    Adds itself to startup and the task manager.
•    Adds a registry key for making changes [...]

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Fix Most of the Computer Problems with Smart Virus Remover

Most of the computer problems are caused by virus and the changes it does. Detecting and deleting them is bit complicated but with this tool called “Smart Virus Remover” you can easily fix your Windows problems that are caused by virus.

The tool is so powerful that it can easily revert back your infected computer to [...]

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Steps to Remove C:\resycled\ntldr.com is not a valid Win32 Application Error

Reported by one of our readers, this was the problem that whenever he double clicked on the drive, the following message showed up “C:\resycled\ntldr.com is not a valid Win32 Application”. Needless to mention C:\resycled\ntldr.com is a virus and more accurately a worm.
The worm creates an autorun.inf file on each drive of the computer when an [...]

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Steps to remove Vamsoft.exe Easily

There was a virus named Vamsoft.exe that infected my system yesterday and made me to rethink from where I got this. I have been removing the viruses for a good time now and this one was just another in the list.
Symptoms of vamsoft.exe virus:
Vamsoft.exe is classified as a Malware and it was it’s activities that [...]

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Steps to Remove resycled or boot.com Virus

I got a virus! Yes I did get one yesterday. I wonder from where I got this but my system got infected with Boot.com virus that displayed a resycled folder and an autorun.inf file on my each drive and even my Anti Virus (Symantec) which I trusted so much failed to catch it. I feel [...]

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