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Amardeep Thakur
Before Connecting USB device to u r computer ,How to know that you are USB is infected with malware ,some studies shown that 25% of malware are designed in such a way that it spread through USB storage devices connected to computers.These types of threats can copy themselves to any device capable of storing information such as cell phones, external hard drives, DVDs, flash memories and MP3/4 players.
How it Work ?
The basic technique used is as follows: Windows uses the Autorun.inf file on these drives or devices to know which action to take, whenever they are connected to a computer. This file, which is on the root directory of the device, offers the option to automatically run part of the content on the device when it connects to a computer.
By modifying Autorun.inf with specific commands, attacker can enable malware to stored on the USB drive to run ,automatically when the device connects to a computer, it Start Infecting You Computer.
How to Identify ?
Once you connect you are USB Device to a computer , using cmd go through the drive (that u find in mycomputer when u conect it to the system with some identity )
and in cmd type "attrib" command there u will get the properties of the drive and then check autorun.inf file is in drive by typing that file in the cmd, if it is executing (Or) Just type a button and use tab buttton,if it is showing autorun.inf file it means you are USB is Infected
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