WOW 11

WOW 11 - Virus Prevention - Part I

Good Afternoon Friends,
How many of you had a problem with Virus. Almost everyone; and most of them do occupy a permanent place in our thumb drive (RM - Removable Media). They never move off from there.

They occupy our RM and they don't even let you format your RM. That is how few of the Virus's are!! Today I shall cover the topic of how to format a drive.
"Format!!! Dude, I know that" might be the expression on many of your faces; believe me; when your RM has the deadliest of them; you will not be able to format your drive the regular way. Read on to know the method I use.
When I say Format, I didn't mean right clicking on the RM and click on Format or even running the format command from the cmd prompt. Because, the Virus in your RM will not let you do that.
Follow these steps:
1) Open Disk Management.
a) Start -> Run-> diskmgmt.msc
b) Control Panel -> Admin tools -> Computer Management -> Choose Disk Management
c) Right Click My Computer -> Manage -> Choose Disk Management
2) Locate your Removable Media. It will be having a separate row in the bottom pane; below your Hard Disk and Optical Media.
3) Right click on your Drive and click on "Change Drive letter and Paths"
4) Now, remove the drive letter that is shown there by selecting Remove. Click on Yes when you get a confirmation screen.
5) Once this is done; right click the drive and click on Format. Now you would be able to format it if you couldn't do that before.
6) Now, repeat Step-3 and this time Click on Add to add a drive letter to your machine.

Note:
1) If you feel that your PC still has the Virus, I highly recommend not to do Step-6; particularly if you are going to share that with your friend.
2) If you didn't perform Step-6. The RM will not be shown in the list of Drives under My Computer. To get it back you should do either of the two:
a) Perform Step-6.
b) Restart your Machine. (This assigns a Drive letter Automatically)

Danish:)