Command Prompt

Me – J. Twin – Y.

J: Any idea how to save this pen drive? It’s corrupted.

Y: My friend did a presentation on that in class before. Like you can save the files in the pen drive somewhere else first, then format it.

J: Can you ask that friend? I dunno how to do this lah.

Y: He’s rarely online leh. Just Google it.

J: K fine.

After 30 minutes of trying

J: Every single thing I’ve tried requires me to download some program and pay money for it. == I don’t want to. Can’t we just format the whole thing?

Y: *obviously very distracted* Wait, wait, I’m sure there’s this command thing somewhere. Don’t need to format. But I don’t know if I’ll end up erasing everything in my laptop.

J: Er. Just try?

After another 30 minutes

Y: I think I found it. Eh, come come. Pen drive. I try something first.

After 15 minutes with many odd mumbles from The Twin

Y: YES! Done dy! Wheeeee! I’m so clever.

J: Huh? What did you do?

Y: Yayyy. The pen drive okay already. I deleted that RECYCLER file.

J: Oh that virus thingy? What did you do to it?

Y: Command prompt. *smug smile* Now it’s cleannnn.

J: Really? Eh, teach me, teach me. There’s one more pen drive here.

Y: Aiya, I send you the command lah through MSN.

J: I’m not online. =.= . . . and I want to do it on my laptop lah. I wanna learnn.

Y: = = . . . Okay, come, I tell you lah.

5 minutes later

J: WHEEE. I AM SUCH A GENIUS. *obviously the second pen drive is now cleared of the thing that corrupted it*

Y: Yeah, last time the RECYCLER thing had an .exe behind it, now it doesn’t, so it’s like more hidden than it previously was. Yeah. Don’t know how true this is though.

J: Hoyeah, I’m such a genius. *grins*

Y: You know, only people like us think that doing one small command prompt makes us geniuses. Those other people who know this type of thing wouldn’t even bother.

J: Oh. Right. Because we’re so noob-ish. *pause* I’m still a genius though.

Yes, that’s how perasan I can be.

Anyway, in case you wanted to know what command prompt I used, here are the steps to it. The Twin found it through a few websites and forums and doesn’t want to look through her History to give me links so that I can list them, so don’t ask me for sources.

In the command prompt type the drive letter: and press enter . Now type dir /w/a and press enter. This will display a list of the files in the pen drive. Check whether the following files are there or not
Autorun.inf
Ravmon.exe
New Folder.exe
svchost.exe
Heap41a
or any other exe file which may be suspicious.
If any of the above files are there, then probably the USB drive is infected. In command prompt type attrib -r -a -s -h *.* and press enter. This will remove the Read Only, Archive, System and hidden file attribute from all the files. Now just delete the files using the command del filename. example del Ravmon.exe.

for recycler ONLY: rd /s /q C:\Recycler in cmd.exe (dunno if it works for others)
replace C: with any other disk drive names

And there you have it! A dose of genius from The Twins. =D