How to Delete Autorun.inf virus from Flash/Pen Drive or Memory Card …

Though using pen / flash drives has provided us easiest way to share files and folder from one computer to another computer. But along with ease this also has bought many complication; in which the biggest is the threat of virus attack from using pen drives.

So you have pen drive which denies formatting… or automatically creates a file called Autorun.inf… which you can not delete… then may be your pen drive is infected by this autorun virus.

Though, if you search on the internet with the word autorun.inf remove then there you will get so many results providing software to get rid of it… like here in the Google search… but most of these ask for money to get full use.

But now today in this post I will tell you an amazing software which you would love to know. May be there are many who have already known of it… called Unlocker… Let us now see how we can use this software to delete Autorun.inf from our infected pen drive.

To use this tool first you need to download Unlocker application from the link given here and then install it to your system. Once installed this will automatically add an context menu “unlocker” with the right mouse click.

So now you have Autorun.inf infection in to the pen drive, as well as the Unlocker installed now click the right mouse button over the Autorun.inf file and choose Unlocker.

So if this actually a virus and preventing itself from deletion then you will get the next popup window with the applications that are preventing the deletion process.

With in this popup window from the bottom left drop down menu choose delete and then click on Unlock all button.

This action will delete the autorun file and then you can format your pen drive easily.

Download Unlocker best utility to delete a file from www.emptyloop.com

With this unlocker application not only the Autorun.inf but any file or folder having restriction in effect can be deleted… so isn’t this application Unlocker is very effective and must have in every pc… I am waiting for your opinion…

However I consider the above method one of the best solution, here is also very effective application which you can use to format any effective (if repairable) pen drive using HP Format Disk Utility you can also download it from the link provided

Download HP Disk Format Tool for Pen Drive from Softpedia.

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