How to delete the
Autorun.inf virus/file from your computer or external storage device like pen
drive or hard drive
Step 1: First of
all Disable if any CD/DVD or USB Autorun in windows
Step2:Now Open Winrar.exe (Start–>All
Programs–>WinRar–>WinRar.exe)
Step 3:Browse to any drive which has been
infected with Autorun.inf virus using winrar explorer application.
Step4: Now you will see all the hidden files
under winrar for that particular drive.
Step 5: Look for the file Autorun.inf and open it using notepad.
Step 6: In that Autorun file, some .EXE file
will be mentioned that will be executed along with the autorun file. This exe
file is the main culprit responsible for its viral activity.
Step 7: Note down the exe file mentioned in the
Autorun.inf file. Close this Autorun.inf file.
Step 8: Now look for that .EXE file
in the drive. Delete this .exe file along with Autorun.inf
Step 9: Restart your computer. Now your system
is free from Autorun.inf Virus.
Note: This process is applicable for your Usb
or Pendrives are infected with Autorun.inf virus.
Trick to speed up your Pen Drive using command prompt
You can attain file transfer speed up to 40Mbps using this cool
trick.Pen drive can be of any brand say Kingston,Transcend etc.,trick works for
all the brands available in the market.Actually here we are converting the FAT
partition present by default in your pen drive to NTFS format. NTFS partition
provides much much faster data transfer. Follow the following steps.
1) Open 'Command Prompt'.
2) At the command prompt, type the
following-
CONVERT <drive
name>:/FS:NTFS
Now enjoy file transfer with the
speed you never imagined!!!!!
For Safe Computing Disable CD/DVD or USB Autorun in windows
When ever you plug a usb
device to the system or insert a cd/dvd disk, The windows Autorun Run utility
runs and displays certain options like open files to
view, Play, Do nothing
Although this a good
utility provided by windows xp operating system, It is sometimes very dangerous
too. When A virus infected Usb drive or
Cd is plugged into the system, the virus gets a chance to attack you operating
system, by running automatically when you plug your device in. So, for this
safety purpose, we need to Disable this Autorun feature in windows XP.
Follow the below steps and ensure your systems safety.
1) Click Start –> Run and type GPEDIT.MSC – This
opens Group Policy editor window.
2) On the left side –> expand Computer Configuration–>
Administrative Templates–> System.
3) Locate the entry for Turn autoplay off on the right side.
4) Double click it and select “Enabled”
For any further assistance to Disable Cd Autorun view the sample screen
shot below.
Enjoy safe computing!!!!!
Google
"Searching for Secrets"
One often wonders “How to start hacking”, “ what are the resources
needed to be an elite hacker. The answer is Google…Through google you can
get enough data,which would form the building block for the hacking procedure.
Google can provide you all the information you need. You just need to know how
to use Google to retrieve those sensitive data for ethical hacking or whatever
purpose you would like to use. One thing more if you follow the below
techniques you can save time, yours results will be more precise, accurate and
relevant. So here we go……
define: - This google operator will find definitions for a certain term
or word over the Internet. Very useful when you come across a strange
word when writing a post. Well you can use this as a google dictionary.
info: - The google info operator will list the sets of
information that Google has from a specific website.
site: - This google operator can be used to see the number of
indexed pages on your site .Alternative it can also be used to search for
information inside a specific site or
class of sites.
link: - This google link operator allows you to find
backlinks pointing to your site. Unfortunately the count is not updated
frequently and not all backlinks are shown.
Inurl: Restricts results
to sites whose URL contains the specified phrase. For example inurl:fox fire
will find all sites containing the word fire in the text and fox in
the URL.
allinurl: - Using this Google operator will limit the search to
results that contain the desired keywords on the URL structure. (i.e.
allinurl:dailyblogtips)
fileformat: - Useful Google operator for finding specific file formats.
Sometimes you know that the information you are looking for is likely to be
contained in a PDF document or on a PowerPoint presentation, for instance.
(i.e. “fileformat:.pdf market research” will search for PDF documents that
contain the terms “market” and “research”)
intitle: Restricts results
to documents whose title contains the specified phrase. For example intitle:fox
fire will find all sites with the word fox in the title and fire in
the text.
allintitle: Restricts results
to documents whose title contains all the specified phrases. For example
allintitle:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox and fire in
the title, so it's equivalent to intitle:fox intitle:fire.
Filetype, ext: Restricts results
to documents of the specified type filetype:pdf fire will return PDFs
containing the word fire, while filetype:xls fox will return Excel spreadsheets
with the word fox.
Numrange: restricts results
to documents containing a number from the specified
Range numrange:1-100 fire will return sites containing a number from 1
to 100 and the word fire. The same result can be achieved with
1..100 fire.
Link: Restricts
results to sites containing links to the specified location link:www.google.com
will return documents containing one or more links to www.google.com
Inanchor: Restricts results
to sites containing links with the specified phrase in
their descriptions inanchor:fire will return documents with links whose
description contains the word fire (that's the actual link
text, not the URL indicated by the link)
allintext: Restricts results
to documents containing the specified phrase in the text, but not in the title,
link descriptions or URLs allintext:"fire fox" will return documents
which contain the phrase fire fox in their text only.
+: Specifies that a phrase
should occur frequently in results. +fire will order results by the number of occurrences
of the word fire.
-: Specifies that a phrase must not
occur in results. -fire will return documents that don't contain the word fire.
"": Delimiters
for entire search phrases (not single words) "fire fox" will return
documents containing the phrase fire fox .Wildcard for a
single character fire.fox will return documents containing the phrases fire
fox, fireAfox, fire1fox, fire-fox etc.
* : Wildcard for a
single word fire * fox will return documents containing the phrases
fire the fox, fire in fox, fire or fox etc.
| logical OR: "fire
fox" | firefox will return documents containing the phrase fire
fox or the word firefox.
