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Virus removal technique for 'autorun.inf' virus

PROBLEM: My friend got a ghostly problem on his laptop. When he double click (i.e., left-mouse-key pressed two times) a drive, he always get the "Open With" pop-up window that says "Choose the program you want to use to open this file", while on right click the drive and selecting "Open", he get the same "Open With" pop-up window. SOLUTION: This malfunction is caused by a virus named autorun.inf So folks, who face similar kind of problem, need not worry since it is not a very serious problem. It can be resolved if you’d follow the following steps: Step 1 : Go to Start , click on Run Step 2 : Type cmd , to open the Command Prompt Step 3 : Type your primary drive name, for e.g., C: Step 4 : Type cd\ to reach at the root of that drive, for e.g., C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>cd\ Step 5 : Type attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf , to change the file attributes, for e.g., C:\>attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf Step 6 : Type del autorun.inf...