With the increasing use of the internet and external hard drives virus attacks arre now much faster and common than ever before. One of the most common viruses found is the autorun.inf file. The most prevalent mode of infection of this malware is through USB flash drives. This malware generally creates multiple copies of itself in each drive as a read only and hidden file. The only way to get rid of autorun.inf file is to delete it completely using the command prompt window and running through the requisite syntax for each drive partition.

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- See also: How to remove autorun.inf