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How to remove Flash Disinfector protection (autorun.inf folder)

Myantispyware team January 13, 2009    

Flash Disinfector is very good free program created by sUBs for removing autorun.inf trojans and protect your Flash/Pen drives from future infection. For protect your computer, the program will create a hidden folder, named autorun.inf in each partition and every USB drive plugged in when you ran it. This autorun.inf folder contains hidden file “lpt3.This folder was created by Flash_Disinfector”. You cannot remove this file using standard remove function. Read below how to remove this file and autorun.inf folder and uninstall Flash Disinfector protection.

Use the following instructions to remove Flash Disinfector protection (autorun.inf folder).

  • Click Start -> Run.
  • Type notepad and press Enter.
  • Copy all the text below into Notepad.

    @echo off
    set drv=c:\
    attrib -A -H -S -R %drv%\autorun.inf
    del \\.\%drv%\autorun.inf\"lpt3.This folder was created by Flash_Disinfector"
    rd %drv%\autorun.inf

  • Save this as remove_fd.bat to your Desktop (remember to select Save as file type: All files in Notepad).
  • Double Click remove_fd.bat and wait for the dos window to close and file.txt will appear on the desktop.
  • Repeat previous steps to all drives, make replacing c with the appropriate drive letter on second line in the code above.

If you need help with the instructions, then post your questions in our Anti-Spyware Software Discussion forum.

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73 Comments

  1. Azlan
    ― November 13, 2009 - 10:58 am  Reply

    u can delete AUTORUN.INF folder created by disinfector and usb disk security by using unlocker

  2. Kanchata
    ― December 9, 2009 - 3:19 pm  Reply

    GREAT & THANKS VERY MUCH

  3. soul
    ― December 15, 2009 - 1:34 am  Reply

    Thanks a lot…
    its usefull buddy

  4. Noxchi
    ― December 16, 2009 - 9:05 pm  Reply

    Thanks A lot … I Really Need this 🙂

  5. Suresh Varma
    ― January 7, 2010 - 9:14 am  Reply

    Thank u so much frend.

  6. pradrag
    ― January 14, 2010 - 6:46 am  Reply

    great

  7. skm
    ― January 15, 2010 - 7:08 am  Reply

    YES IT WORKED!

  8. garry
    ― February 5, 2010 - 2:13 pm  Reply

    thak you very much it is 100% working

  9. Simon
    ― February 8, 2010 - 10:14 am  Reply

    perfect !!!!

  10. NBK
    ― February 11, 2010 - 6:59 am  Reply

    Awesome!works great , ty so so so so much you rock!!!

  11. nAPSTER
    ― February 17, 2010 - 1:08 am  Reply

    hi there ur info helped i cud delete autorun.inf
    m infected with recycler.exe can u help plz mail me

  12. Patrik
    ― February 17, 2010 - 10:11 am  Reply

    nAPSTER, if you need a help, then please follow the steps.

  13. Suresh M S
    ― February 24, 2010 - 1:12 am  Reply

    Thanks yar,works very well

  14. egafx
    ― March 2, 2010 - 10:12 am  Reply

    “RECYLER is system folder that stored all files that you have removed.”

    but not on flash disks.

  15. daliaali
    ― March 10, 2010 - 5:23 pm  Reply

    very goooooooooooooooooooood
    thank you very much
    i am trying to remove this damn autorun by many brogram
    ———— but no way
    it’s a masing
    always gud with you
    thanks alot
    dalia

  16. Man
    ― March 26, 2010 - 9:23 am  Reply

    Cool codes!! 😉 tnx

  17. khee
    ― June 17, 2010 - 10:46 pm  Reply

    Nice. My problems solved. THANKS A LOT!!

  18. Dev Jax
    ― September 2, 2010 - 3:42 pm  Reply

    WOW it worked!!! I tried repeatedly a variety of suggestions to no avail. I’m glad that i came across this successful solution and so appreciative for the help. Thank you…

  19. sadiq khan
    ― September 8, 2010 - 9:42 pm  Reply

    its excellent…. thanks to the programmer!

  20. balakrishnarao
    ― September 9, 2010 - 5:41 pm  Reply

    problem solved finally. malware problem caused windows update failure still continues.

  21. Patrik
    ― September 11, 2010 - 9:52 am  Reply

    balakrishnarao, probably your PC also infected with trojan DNSChanger. Open a new topic in our Spyware removal forum. I will help to remove this malware.

  22. linling
    ― September 23, 2010 - 10:02 pm  Reply

    Removed!! Finally. Thank you so much

  23. Saeed uk
    ― October 12, 2010 - 3:34 pm  Reply

    thanks dude
    that’s a very nice job…..

  24. Neil
    ― November 18, 2010 - 5:08 pm  Reply

    Man …… It’s great.. Big Thankx

  25. NASEER
    ― January 11, 2011 - 4:46 am  Reply

    I’M UNABLE TO DELETE IN MEMORY CARD AUTORUN.INF PLEASE HELP ME HOW TO DELETE

  26. Angga Lanuma
    ― January 14, 2011 - 5:57 am  Reply

    thank’s…… 🙂

  27. Patrik (Myantispyware admin)
    ― January 14, 2011 - 10:33 pm  Reply

    NASEER, if the instructions above does not help you, then ask for help in our Spyware removal forum.

  28. fhranz
    ― February 28, 2011 - 3:14 am  Reply

    thanks, very nice tool

  29. Hadi
    ― March 25, 2011 - 10:15 pm  Reply

    berhasil, makasih ya, thanks a lot …

  30. Naveed
    ― March 27, 2011 - 4:22 pm  Reply

    1st of all this folder is not a virus or harmfull for your computer but if u feel fuzzy then U can use the following instructions to remove the ” Autorun.inf folder” which is created by Flash Disinfector protection softwre.

    Go to start
    Then in ” Run ” command type “cmd”
    When command window open……
    Go to the drive containg ” Autorun.inf”.folder. In this tutorial ” C ” drive is containg “Autorun.inf” folder

    1= attrib -r -s -h autorun.inf

    2= ren \\.\c:\autorun.inf\con. dummy
    3= ; edited: Add next line
    4= ren \\.\c:\autorun.inf\nul.protected dummy1
    5= rd autorun.inf /s /q

    If line 2,3,4,5 not works or give some error!! then no need to worry, just type this command and press enter.

    rd c:\autorun.inf\nul\. /s /q

    Now u can delete “Autorun.inf” folder by right click on folder.

    ~~~!!! U R Done Njoy !!!~~~

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