first run your system in safe mode, then go to your my computer properties and enable the system restore

function. then restart your computer and run in command prompt mode. in the command mode type the following. ATTRIB Autorun.inf -H -S -R. if the file is found in the Drive then give. DEL Autorun.inf. <similarly you can do it for all drives. but you have to restart your system for each drive.> to get rid of Autorun.inf related viruses do the following in all of your removable and local drives. if autorun.inf already exists then, open cmd (command prompt) and change the directory to the root of (infected) drive, i.e C:\ has autorun.inf C:\>del /a:rhs c:\autorun.inf | md c:\autorun.inf this will remove autorun.inf file and will create autorun.inf directory which will prohibit viruses from creating autorun.inf files in same drive. repeat the process for all drives. you can also create files named Recycle, Recycler, Restore, System etc in all drive to prohibit creation of folders having these names (thoese folders are created by viruses to complete their process in every drive) and you can also create directories of same name that of virus file i.e fbak.exe, fix.exe, sscvihhost.exe, system.exe, etc There is a much simple way to remove the Autorun.inf file. Genreally when you refresh the windows explorer view a bounded virus process recreates this file. This file is attached to many events of windows explorer including OPEN, REFRESH, etc. Simple stept to remove the virus activation: You must close opened explorer windows. 1. open up a command prompt (i.e. cmd.exe) >> to load it go to Run, type cmd, enter. 2. Now to remove virus's attributes (in order to delete it type following line by line and execute them pressing enter. e.g. F:\ F:\attrib -s -r -h *.* If there are any malicious EXE files those are now visible so if unnecessary delete them too. F:\del autorun.inf 3. After finishing above, quickly remove the pen as soon as posible (just after executing del command). 4. Now your pen is without virus activation config. file. Now you can safely delete unnecessary EXE files on it.