Autorun Virus Remover, also known as USB Antivirus, is a tiny application that will block autorun process on removable devices. We put it into test and here are the results.
| Autorun Virus Remover | Rating 5.0 / 5.0 Recommended: YES |
Pros:  Quick Installation Easy to use Avoids the propagation of viruses via removable devices. Useful tools to fix registry Can help you to safely remove an external storage device. | Cons:  Simple look and feel.
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One way to spread viruses is via removable devices. Someone can put a worm, malware or a virus in your network just by using a memory stick. In that cases your powerful firewall wont block it because the attack is coming from inside. Usually, the malware writes a tiny autorun application that will be executed every time the USB device is opened. The virus may install itself on your computer and would start spreading. That’s why some offline computers with low protection get infected..
This application avoids the propagation of viruses via pendrives, memory sticks, SD cards and other media devices by disabling automatically their autorun capability. It is specially designed to detect and clean suspicious autorun applications.
Autorun Virus Remover can perform a memory / disk scans and clean the viruses after find them. Besides you can set a trust flag for some services allowing them to perform read/write operation on your removable devices.
You also can block completely removable devices or disable writing data to the usb storage devices. This is particularly useful to prevent theft of information.
Have you ever double clicked and application and it just won’t start (specially after deleting some viruses)? Have you ever have to open a folder using “right-click > open folder” instead of double click? Well, that happens because the exe files or open folders associations has been changed and the Operating System is looking for other file to execute before your applications.
If other antivirus detects and deletes it, the system will show an error message and won’t work properly. Autorun Virus remover can reset some registry options that will help you to troubleshoot some problems like those. It can repair exe files association, disabled “Folder Options” and showing hidden files.
And finally, it can help you with a very common issue. When you want to remove a USB device, sometimes it can be locked by some services and the system gives recurrently this message: The device ‘Generic Volume’ cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later. Autorun Virus Remover can force a dismount for you so you can remove your USB drive without worrying about damaging your pen-drive.
Although the application seems pretty simple, it has a lot of tools that will help you in your daily operations. You can find their official site and download a trial version here: USB Antivirus Home Page
During our test period it worked like a charm, detected and blocked several treats.
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