How to Delete / Remove New Folder.exe Virus from Pendrive (USB Drive)

USB drives are there to carry your Important data from one PC to the other one. Moreover, it is the only possible way to share viruses from one PC to the other one. Yes, many of you people might have noticed that, when you attach this USB drive to your PC, you would have some files named as New Folder.exe etc. This is the virus. It can be a harmful one if you don’t know how to handle it. Sometimes, to remove this you need to format your entire hard drive. Many of the people do the same thing to remove such viruses. Do you know that, you can remove such viruses manually from your PC? Take a look!
Yes, you heard it right. You can get rid of such unwanted and harmful viruses from your PC by your own. here, we’ll be guiding you how you can remove such New folder.exe viruses from your Pen drive or we can say USB Drive.

How to Delete / Remove New Folder.exe Virus from Pendrive :

Step 1 :
Whenever you attach a USB drive to your PC, there comes a pop-up window saying open folder to view files. From there do not click on to OK button, just select Cancel button.

Step 2 :
Now, open the Command Prompt by typing ‘cmd‘ in the run box
Step 3 :
drive letter: in the command prompt and press Enter button once.
Step 4 :
After that type, dir /w/a command from the same window and press Enter button.
Step 5 :
There comes a list of all viruses present on your USB Drive. Like below ones.

• svchost.exe
• Heap41a
• Autorun.inf
• Ravmon.exe
• New Folder.exe

If there’s any option from the above mentioned names, that means your Drive is highly affected by virus.
Step 6 :
attrib -r -a -s -h *.* put this command in the command prompt and press Enter.
Step 7 :
This command will automatically remove some kind of viruses from your USB Drive directly.
Step 8 :
Now, you have to delete viruses manually just by typing del filename command and press Enter.
If you have a virus named New Folder.exe, enter del New Folder.exe and press Enter to delete it from your Drive. Simple?
This is how you can remover/ delete viruses from your Pendrive or USB Drive without formatting it. Give it a try, learn and teach your friends too. We’ll be back with some more interesting and useful tips to make you more smarter and way ahead from the others.