There are many ways to remove autorun.inf virus, it can be removed using CMD command, various autorun.inf removal tool and there’s a prevention from being infected by disabling autorun in the system.

Manual Removal/Remover of Autorun.inf virus:

1. Boot your system in Safe Mode Command Prompt Only. (can be done by restarting your pc and press F8 before the windows screen shows up)
2. When the CMD prompt shows up (black and white screen),
   • type in CD\ (to get you to the main directory of C:)
   • then DIR /AH (to list all files that are hidden, if there’s autorun.inf then you are infected)
     
   • type AUTORUN.INF (shows what’s inside the autorun.inf file, whatever’s inside it’s a virus since )
   • for example, it shows “open=virus.exe” remember it.
3. Type ATTRIB -H -R -S C:\AUTORUN.INF (it unhides the autorun.inf)
4. DEL C:\AUTORUN.INF
5. Still at CMD Command, to make sure the virus won’t start again during start-up, type MSCONFIG
6. System Configuration Utility will show up, look for the virus carrier shown at step 2, which is virus.exe in our example
7. uncheck virus.exe the OK. that will stop it from running again during start-up.

To Disable Autorun in your system (flashdrive, pendrive, cd, dvd, usb, etc…)

1. Open REGEDIT (Start>RUN> type REGEDIT)
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
3. right click on the space then choose DWORD, type NoDriveTypeAutoRun as it’s name
4. Right click NoDriveTypeAutoRun then modify
5. key in 000000ff as value data.
6. or simply download this DISABLE-AUTORUN.REG, extract then run DISABLE-AUTORUN.REG.

Using Autorun.inf Virus Removal/Remover Tool

1. Download Autorun Eater 2.4
2. Run and it will automatically monitor for malicious autorun.inf