What is a Recycler virus ?
Recycler virus is a virus that exploits the AUTORUN feature of Windows. It copies the autorun.inf files on each drive of the computer, be it permanent or a removable media such as DVDs, CD ROMs, USB devices, or Memory Sticks. The recycler virus originated from the W32.Lecna.H worm that spreads itself by copying itself to all the active drives.
This virus has been widely spread these days and it has become very common that every memory drives we use will be infected by this virus. This Recycler virus also known as BV:AutoRun-G[Wrm] is very annoying one and even formatting the drive will NOT REMOVE the virus. Though antivirus software is able to identify, it cannot remove the virus completely. If you DELETE this manually, it will again CREATE itself and none of the virus removal tricks could not work to resolve the problem. But There is a small solution to handle this.
Solution To Remove Recycler Virus
- Download Flash Disinfector from here and save on some non windows drive.
- Double click on it and it will ask you to insert USB flash drive and click ok. Do so.
- Clicking on ok will make your desktop go blank, don’t worry, its normal.
- It will fix the autorun.inf virus and you are done partially.
Yes, its a PARTIAL solution, it will lock the autorun file and you will see some file created by flash disinfector. If you remove the file, the virus get re-activated.
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