How to remove Flash Disinfector protection (autorun.inf folder)

Flash Disinfector is very good free program created by sUBs for removing autorun.inf trojan and protect your Flash/Pen drives from future infection. For protect your computer, the program will create a hidden folder, named autorun.inf in each partition and every USB drive plugged in when you ran it. This autorun.inf folder contains hidden file “lpt3.This folder was created by Flash_Disinfector”. You cannot remove this file using standard remove function. Read below how to remove this file and autorun.inf folder and uninstall Flash Disinfector protection.

Use the following instructions to remove Flash Disinfector protection (autorun.inf folder).

• Click Start -> Run.
• Type notepad and press Enter.
• Copy all the text below into Notepad.

  @echo off

  set drv=c:\

  attrib -A -H -S -R %drv%\autorun.inf
del \\.\%drv%\autorun.inf\"lpt3.This folder was created by Flash_Disinfector"
rd %drv%\autorun.inf

• Save this as remove_fd.bat to your Desktop (remember to select Save as file type: All files in Notepad).
• Double Click remove_fd.bat and wait for the dos window to close and file.txt will appear on the desktop.
• Repeat previous steps to all drives, make replacing c with the appropriate drive letter.

Flash Disinfector is free autorun.inf trojans and USB/Flash disks trojans remover. This is a program designed and developed by sUBs (author of combofix) to clean autorun.inf trojans that are running on the system.

Please read post below on how to use Flash Disinfector

How to use Flash Disinfector

Download Flash Disinfector from here and save it to your Desktop. When Flash Disinfector has finished downloading you will now see an icon on your desktop similar to the one below.

Flash Disinfector icon

Double-click Flash_Disinfector.exe icon to run it and you will see a prompt similar to the figure below.

Plug flash/USB/Pen drive – Flash Disinfector – prompt.

Please insert your flash drive and/or other removable drives including your mobile phone and click OK button.

Please do so and allow the utility to clean up those drives as well. Wait until it has finished scanning.

When Flash Disinfector has finished running, you will see a prompt as shown below.

Flash Disinfector is done!

Reboot your computer when done.

Note: Flash_Disinfector will create a hidden file named autorun.inf in each partition and every USB drive plugged in when you ran it. Don’t delete this folder. It will help protect your drives from future infection.

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