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When my laptop does its virus scans, recently it has been showing a threat called 'autorun.inf'. I presume the .inf stands for infection. It identifies it as a threat, yet it won't heal it or quarantine it, and to be fair, its not affecting my computers performance at all. Has anyone else encountered this?
Is there anything I can do to remove this, without having to pay silly money to a technician?
haha!
do ye honestly think that potential hackers etc would be so discreet as to create a file called .inf that stood for infection?! .inf effectively stands for instruction file its like a .properties file really. A properties file is just associated to a( another ) calling file.
Autorun.inf is associated with autorun.exe:
http://autorun.moonvalley.com/autoruninf.htm
Thats a file normally found on CDs or DVDs.
Its normally a small text file, instructing the PC what to run when the CD/DVD is inserted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorun
If you're concerned about it, just delete it. And don't worry .inf doesn't mean infection.
But how do I delete it? The anti-virus doesn't give me an option to.
Does your AV software tell you where the file is located?
e.g. C:\Documents and Settings...........\ etc etc
Just go that directory via My Computer/Windows Explorer and delete the file that way.
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Originally Posted by joeSoap