How to Locate Viruses Using the Attrib Command

Nowadays, Antiviruses can be very expensive. If you don’t have any money to spare, and can’t spend your money on a antivirus to delete a virus. You can locate a virus manually using the Windows command prompt

Steps:

1. Go hit start

 

2. Then click on Run

 

3. In the searchbox type in cmd.exe

 

4. When you click on OK a windows should come up Simalar to this:

 

5. First, type in the Infected Drive such as for example: dir/p C:

 

6. DON’T HIT ENTER YET! Type in the end switch such as s – h *. * /s /d and press ENTER

 

7. The command prompt will load all the files in your drive. If you see anything suspicous for example: Autorun.inf or a .exe file. These files you need to watch out for.

 

8. If you see the .exe and the autorun.inf than you have just found a tainted file.

 

9. Write the program name and where the program is located.

 

10. Rename the Autorun.inf so you can open it without activating the virus. Rename it as a rar. extension.

 

11. Go to start, and double click the My computer icon.

 

12. Select the tainted drive, that has the infected file. Find the program directory that contains autorun.inf.

 

13. Right-click on the file you renamed “virusfile” and choose “Delete.”

 

14. Right-click on the “.exe” file and choose “Delete.” You have now removed the virus from your computer’s hard drive.