Pendrive Virus

Whenever I insert Pendrive shortcut is created for the pendrive, how to recover data and remove this virus

One way is to boot a linux live cd and inspect the files on the usb device. The virus can't execute in a linux environment. I had to do this once to clean a usb stick that was infected.

How do you know for sure this is a virus?
Alot of usb hdd & flash drive manufacturers now use an autorun feature which will place a shortcut to your drive on your desktop.
If you don't want this feature , then, just delete/rename your autorun.inf file on the flash drive and see if that cures the issue.

autorun in windows doesn't create any shortcuts.

Can I make my Pendrive such that it does not execute .exe files, is it possible to do that

Thanks for the reply

It is sure that there is Virus, because when I create some folder ,for example suppose I create folder name DEV, it automatically create the same folder named DEV but size of folder is changed to 737Kb and dll runtime is written automatically

There is a setting in windows somewhere to turn off autoplay when cd/usb are inserted. I don't recall where the setting is found though but it should be pretty easy to find, lots of corporate windows workstations have autoplay disabled.

Well, there are probably a significant number the programs that get called by autorun.inf that create shortcuts automatically, legitimate and viruses. And for all I know there may be some tag you can put in an autorun.inf file that creates a shortcut

You should scan your pendrive with Anti-Virus installed in your PC, after the complete scanning you should open files from your pendrive.

I know that and I had already done that setting , then also pendrive is infected by autorun virus

I do not want to use any antivirus, is there any other way to get proteced

I) Open a command prompt by click Start -> Run. Type cmd and hit the Enter key.
II) In the command prompt, create a directory in the root directory of the USB drive (By Pointing cmd to the USB disk VIA its drive letter like if its F:/ then type F:/ and hit enter) with command:

mkdir AutoRun.ini

III) Move into this new directory with command:

cd AutoRun.ini

IV) Create a new directory with command:

mkdir a...//

V) Exit the command prompt window with command:

exit

Remove the USB-dirve from the computer and now its immune. And whenever you will plug it into a infected computer the USB won't get infected.

Thanks a lot, Have Great Day

I have doubt here, what is this mkdir a...// mkdir is make directory but what is a...//, will this make directory of name a...

thanks for this info..accidentally bumped to this thread. i was searching for this solution for a long time

BitDefender has a free program that can be used to protect flash drives from things like that autorun virus.
Its called Bitdefender USB Immunizer