Let's imagine that on this example your USB disk is placed on drive G:
Why?
A virulent computer will try to create a autorun.inf on the root of the pendisk but as a folder already exists this operation won't be possible. Some virus might try to delete this folder, but since we create new subfolder con, aux, and nul - it will be somewhat safer.
- Open cmd.exe (Command Prompt)
- Then, type
- Type
- Type
- Type
Why?
A virulent computer will try to create a autorun.inf on the root of the pendisk but as a folder already exists this operation won't be possible. Some virus might try to delete this folder, but since we create new subfolder con, aux, and nul - it will be somewhat safer.