How To: Remove the Virus which creates .exe files in your folders

It happened to me a number of times in college, when I used to freely share my friend's USB drives for assignments. I would plug in the USB in to my PC and carelessly click on every folder I could see.

What I wouldn't recognize was that the USB's were infected. It's a common virus, particularly when you're sharing with your friends. All you see on your USB are a lot of folders.


The common symptoms of this virus are:

• Your task manager is not visible anymore. Ctrl + Alt + Dlt does not work.
• The registry editor is also not available. Typing in regedit in your windows start menu doesn't do anything.
• The folder options list don't work. 
• Overall slowing down of system.

So usually, people freak out and think that there is no cure except a total hard drive format.

But there is! All you need to do is download a virus scanner from a different computer (preferably) and run it on your system. It will delete your 'Autorun.inf' file. That will cure everything and you can go back to normal. 

Here's the link for the virus scanner.