Copy important Files: Backup your important files and save it on a virus free drive.Scan your pen drive: Running an antivirus application will determine, whether or not your pen drive is infected by virus or any other malware infection, if you find any malwares / viruses delete it.Here’s how you can remove virus from your pen drive However removing a virus from a pen drive is not impossible. When you try to delete a file an error message pops-up saying “Access denied”.The files in pen drive are displayed in weird characters like “ΩäCÄφyu.┼' or '√¬O+úφ.$⌡'and so on.
A pen drive infected with virus has the following symptoms. Viruses on pen drive can severely damage the files stored on it and worse make the drive inaccessible and unusable. However since these devices are plug and play, they are more prone to virus infection than any other devices. Pen drives offers many useful features like high storage capacity, portable, speed etc. Many people frequently use pen drives to store and transfer a wide and variety of data between computers.
