Remove viruses without using any Anti-Virus software

Remove viruses without using any Anti-Virus software

Now a days computers are getting infected with viruses very easily. Computer viruses can easily enter in system along with any software installed or through internet. For internet user this comes by downloading the files through FTP or by email.



A computer virus is actually a small piece of program that can damage your hard disk containing data or interfere with various processes of computer operation. Virus program can replicate itself to different location in memory.

A virus program contains certain set of instructions to initiate some sort of events that alter the normal process of infected computer. Each virus has unique set of events to perform. These events and their actions can range from harmless to devastating.

In this article, we explain how to remove the computer viruses without using any anti-viruse  software. Please follow the following steps:

Step# 1

First open the windows terminal, for that goto Run then type cmd and hit Enter key.

Step# 2

In cmd terminal type <Drive name> which one is infected and hit the "Enter" key.
( Drive name may be any USB drive where problem occur)

Step# 3

 Now type "attrib" and then hit "Enter".
( this command list all the files in the present working directory i.e. USB drive. Alternative of this step is type "dir/w/o/a/p").

 Step# 4

If the listed files contains any file named autorun.inf or some .exe which you dont know then proceed for next step else the drive is not infected with any virus.

Step# 5

Now type "attrib -h -r -s -a *.*" and then hit ENTER key.
( This cmd remove all the hidden, read only, system or archive attribute over any file).

Step# 6

After the above step# 5 all files are unhidden and any attribute is removed. So now you can  DELETE the unknown files (Infected File).

Step# 7

To delete the file type "del <filename>" in the command prompt and hit the ENTER key.

Now Your DRIVE is a VIRUS FREE drive and is safe to use.

If you any question or any doubt please feel free to comment below.


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ARBAZ (www.droidwindows.com)