Sunday 15 June 2014

LOCATING VIRUSES ON PC USING THE "ATTRIB COMMAND"

Virus has been one of the computers great enemy, it has powers of damaging the computer system and
bring it to its end, according to statistics, virus has brought about the end of 39% of the computers
without antivirus and a number of those with anti virus, so we can see it is a great disease to
computers. There are various means we can get rid of this problem, by installing an anti virus or by
formatting our hard disck drive, or mose seriously formatting the hard disk, thereby changing out
operating system. Well this post can help to bring an end to this great epedemic..
i will show you how to use our MS-DOS (MICROSOFT DISK OPERATING SYSTEM) to detect our
virus for us from our computer.

First things first, open MS-DOS by clicking on the windows or start button, then type Command
prompt or cmd (windows 7 users). As for Xp users, click on start, click run and type CMD, and hit OK or
click on start, click on all programs, click on Accessories and then click command prompt..
Then, type in the Infected Drive such as for example: dir/p C:
after the C: Type in the end switch as s - h *. * /s /d and then simply press the ENTER key.

The command prompt will load all the files in your drive. If you see anything suspicious for example:
Autorun.inf or a .exe file. These files you need to watch out for. (see image)


look properly readers, do you see any ? Well i dont, but If you see any .exe and the autorun.inf then you have just found a tainted file, all you have to do id to write done the program name and where the program is located in your drive.

Then change the name Autorun.inf so you can open it without activating the virus and letting it infect
the system. Its best you rename it as a rar. extension so it can be placed in a folder. Now, Go to start,
and double click the My computer icon. Select the drive where you can locate this file that has been
infected. Find the program directory that contains autorun.inf
Right-click on the file you renamed "virusfile" and choose "Delete."
Right-click on the ".exe" file and choose "Delete." You have now removed the virus from your
computer's hard drive.

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