2. Double clicking on any drive opens search.
3. Error message being displayed while trying to open drives.
4. Double clicking on any drive opens “Open With” dialog window.
5. Drive opens in new window on double click.
I am sure a lot of you have or have had this problem wherein you are unable to access the disk drive that you want by double clicking on it. This problem is caused by an autorun.inf worm infection.
A lot of virus creates an autorun.inf file at the root of your local drives and USB flash drive. The reason for this is when you open My Computer and tries to access a drive, it will run the virus to infect your computer. Very often anti-virus is able to remove executable virus from system but not autorun.inf. This is because autorun.inf that’s located at the root of your drive is only an instruction file that tells Windows what to automatically run when you access the drive from My Computer.
Ever wonder why your Anti Virus detects a virus in your autorun.inf whenever you insert your removable disk (USB, flash drive, external hard drive etc.) but it can’t disinfect it nor delete it or if you’re having a hard time accessing drives? Some antiviruses do not even detect this worm as a threat. Tried deleting it manually but you can’t find the file?
Autorun.inf is hidden and it can’t be removed or disinfected by Anti virus. And you try finding the autorun.inf file but failed even if you select to show all files from folder option?
Here is a quick fix for you if you are facing any of these problems.
Note: If you are having the problem with one of the internal hard disks, make sure to do the following process once you have booted up in safe mode and restart the entire system once you are done.
1. Goto your comand prompt window by either going to the Run window and entering cmd or by going to Start->Accessories->Command Prompt
2. Once there goto the drive that requires fixing. i.e, If you want to fix your G drive, then typeG: and click on enter.
3. Then type the following command: attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf and enter
4. The next command to enter is del autorun.inf
5. Now that you have the autorun.inf file deleted, you can restart the device to check if its working properly or not.
