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, to delete the file,

for e.g., C:\>del autorun.inf

Step 7: Restart your computer after completing the procedure.