I deleted the two files and they came back within seconds. Nothing new here right? So I killed explorer.exe to get rid of any malware that had attached to it.

In a hostel in Santiago after plugging in my USB drive I noticed a new hidden autorun.inf and system.dll in the root of my drive and all other drives. It uses bugs in the operating system to install and start itself without any user involved.It uses bugs in user software, mostly Web Browsers to copy itself onto your machine and executes.It masks itself with a Folder icon in Windows Explorer and waits for you to click on it.It uses the autorun.inf feature to start when a removable drive is added, or a CD/DVD is inserted.Including some of the tools mentioned below. Some cases it attached itself to dozens of random applications on my USB stick It attaches itself to other programs on the harddrive or the USBĭevice and is launched whenever you start one of these programs.The svchost.exe process (check Autoruns.exe Services tab) or takes over theįunctionality of another Windows feature such as Task Manager (check the autoruns.exe Explorer tab), it installs itself as a service that runs in It attaches itself to Windows Explorer as an component or handler,.It adds itself to one of the various places in the WindowsĬonfiguration to autostart when the computer boots up or a user logs.To write a bit about finding and removing viruses without AV software. Personally I never use it anyway, but this prompted me It, however there was one, it didn't find.Īll this begs the questions whether Anti virus software is any Next I checked the USB stick of a fellow traveler who I knew I installed one of those two, Avira AntiVir PersonalĪnd it found some copies and healed the machine. The registry's run key, it works as an extension to Windows Explorer.Ģ4 hours later 2 of the 40+ engines at virustotal,com identified the The virus doesn't use autorun.inf and also doesn't add an entry to The file, none of them identified it as a virus. , there they use 40+ different antivirus engines to scan I then used PortableClam and AVGFree, both found nothing to be wrong Scanning my USB stick returned no results. I noticed it because new files and foldersĪppeared on my USB device.

This whole virus thing is getting out of hand.

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