{"id":128,"date":"2013-11-08T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T03:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/08\/how-to-locate-viruses-using-the-attrib-command\/"},"modified":"2021-12-05T11:58:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T11:58:40","slug":"how-to-locate-viruses-using-the-attrib-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/08\/how-to-locate-viruses-using-the-attrib-command\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Locate Viruses Using the Attrib Command"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0Windows command prompt<\/b><\/p>\n

Steps:<\/u><\/h2>\n

1. Go hit start<\/strong>
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2.\u00a0Then click on Run<\/b>
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3.\u00a0In the searchbox type in\u00a0cmd.<\/b>exe<\/b>
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4.\u00a0When you click on OK a windows should come up Simalar to this:<\/b>
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5.\u00a0First, type in the\u00a0Infected Drive<\/b>\u00a0such as for example:<\/b>\u00a0dir\/p C:<\/i>
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6.\u00a0DON’T HIT ENTER YET!<\/b>\u00a0Type in the end switch such as s – h *. * \/s \/d and press ENTER
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7.\u00a0The command prompt will load all the files in your drive.<\/b>\u00a0If you see anything suspicous for example: Autorun.inf or a .exe file. These files you need to watch out for.
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8.\u00a0If you see the .<\/b>exe and the autorun.inf than you have just found a tainted file.
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9.\u00a0Write the program name and where the program is located.<\/b>
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10.\u00a0Rename the\u00a0Autorun.<\/i><\/b>inf so you can open it without activating the virus. Rename it as a rar. extension.
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11.\u00a0Go to start, and double click the\u00a0My computer<\/b>\u00a0icon.<\/b>
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12.\u00a0Select the tainted drive, that has the infected file.<\/b>\u00a0Find the program directory that contains autorun.inf.
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13.\u00a0Right-click on the file you renamed “virusfile” and choose “Delete.<\/b>”
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14.\u00a0Right-click on the “.<\/b>exe” file and choose “Delete.” You have now removed the virus from your computer’s hard drive.
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Nowadays, Antiviruses can be very expensive. If you don\u2019t have any money to spare, and can\u2019t spend your money on a antivirus to delete a virus. You can locate a virus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[41,28,30,24,32,25,37],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gain-knowledge","tag-attrib","tag-command","tag-learning","tag-rajesh-baranwal","tag-technology","tag-the-baranwal","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajeshbaranwal.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}