safety instructions while plugging a pendrive or a mobile phone to ur pc.

Here are a few safety instructions that if followed can prevent malware (virus worm and trogan) infection...

• 1)Do not allow any autorun programs to run from ur pendrive/mobile unless u put it there in the first place. U can use tweakui from microsoft to deactivate the autorun function from all drives except the cd rom

• 2)Always use "Windows explorer" and NOT "My computer" to open pendrive/mobile. If u use my computer clicking the folders button will give u the side tree view in both case only access the pendrive/mobile from the tree DO NOT DOUBLE CLICK THE DRIVE ICON.
• or
• type the drive letter in the address bar and press enter to browse the pendrive/mobile

• 4)Always scan ur pendrive/mobile with ur antivirus before opening it, and make sure ur antivirus has the latest virus definitions and that it is uptodate.

• 5)use a registry protection software. (u can use spy bot search and destroy..with its teatimer option enabled... though u may be annoyed when it asks for every registry change made to be allowed... but it will save u a lot of tension as it would as ur permission before any virus could make a registry change... u can swith off when u are installling a new software else it might bug u more than u ever want to and force u to disable the teatimer/reg protection... which is a bad idea.)

• 6) if u find a file called autorun.inf in ur pendrive delete it unless u put it there on purpose. autorun.inf is NOT a virus it is a file that tells windows which program to open whenu double click a drive icon.. if find it open it using notepad.exe and try to locate which program is supposed to open find it, if found suspicious delete it (most of the case it can be deleted safely)

• 7) if u double click a folder and nothing happens right click on it and check whether it is an application if so u r most probably infected by now by the brontok virus. use the guide lines given in this blog to clean ur system.

Well these are certain guidelines if u guyz feel that there are more please let me know by posting a comment i will update this topic as soon as possible.

have a .exe file with the name of the folder inside the folde..

Well to say the bad news ur system is infected with the virus brontok (common name )
i'll keep this post simple..
just click these three links to download removal tools..
after downloading unzip them (store in the root directory like c:\ for easy access)then execute them in order given below
it is recommended to turn of system restore else the virus might get replaced from the windows back up or run eset's nod 32 antivirus with latest up dates (warning: removal of virus manually or antivirus might disable ur exes running klwk.com will fix it if that happens the rest of them wont run until that is fixed)
execution order..

[ if ur window opens the file in this window click the back button on ur browser to get back to this page]

1)klwk.com link: http://www.mediafire.com/?b3rg9ebhxtd
2)cav-0.91.exe link: http://www.mediafire.com/?d2jnlhmy0td
3)aimfix.exe link: http://www.mediafire.com/?8zzi12fjj2b



Note all these files should be run with administrator privileges so run them under an adminstrator account from xp in vista right click on the file and select run as administrator . For klwk.com u have to run command prompt with admin rights (click start >> programs >> accessories >> there right click on command prompt select run as administrator go to the location where it is stored then type klwk.com

command to use in dos mode(command prompt)
Only the blue are command the green are for ur information do not type the green text in
purple coloured text means u have to substitute according to ur need.
To go to the root of the drive (say c:)
cd\
eg: c:\documents and seting\user name\:>cd\
result: c:\>

To go to a folder
cd
here
eg:c:\> cd new folder
result: c:\new folder\:>


To go to a folder inside that folder and so on..
C\new folder\:>\cd foldername
here
eg:c:\new folder\> cd new folder2
result: c:\new folder\new folder2:>

To go to a directory a level back
C\new folder\new folder\:>\cd..
like pressing the back arrow in ur "my computer".
eg:c:\new folder\newfolder2> cd..
result: c:\new folder\:>

To change the drive u are in
C:\> (drive letter):
eg: c:\>e:
result:e:\> here e: is to change ur drive to e drive type d: for d drive f: for f drive and so on

Restart ur computer and execute file until none of them show any traces