Autorun Eater: Remove Suspicious “Autorun.inf” Files from USB Drives

If you have a USB drive, you should definitely use the tool which we are going to share today. Thanks to AskVG reader "Xonrick" for mentioning it.

"Autorun Eater" is a tool which automatically monitors and removes suspicious "autorun.inf" files found in the root directory of USB drives even before you access the drive.

In most cases, "autorun.inf" files are normally, but not always, created by malwares. When an infected drive is accessed the traditional way(double-click), the 'autorun.inf' file executes the malware and your system gets infected. Most anti-virus applications also do not help you remove the 'autorun.inf' files after they clean up the malware. This causes the drive to be inaccessible using the traditional way of double-clicking.

Autorun Eater can:

Detect and remove suspicious 'autorun.inf' files in real-time
'Refresh' your drive to its original state
Pause at any time
Prevent accidental execution of malicious files by 'autorun.inf' files
Help you fix 3 common registry changes made by malicious files

The 3 common registry problems which this tool can fix are:

Registry Editor disabled
Task Manager disabled
Folder Options disabled

Autorun Eater does/is not:

Help you remove malicious file(s)
Guarantee a guaranteed way to prevent malware infections
An anti-virus application

Screenshot:

You can download it using following link:

Download Autorun Eater

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18 Comments

Kwesi C.

According to the comment above: This program is fail.
MAGNUMHEART

does this needs to be installed on the system.

or it can be installed on the pen drive to have

protection anywhere u put it. ^^
VG

^^ Its for PC.

@Kwesi C. and ThePurps
This utility is absolutely safe to use. Its a false positive from MalwareBytes.
ThePurps

@VG- For as much as I value your site and your opinion, I am not planning on taking any risks with my computer. Its an expensive Vaio Laptop that I got as a birthday present, and I'm not going to risk screwing it up again. I already crashed something a few months ago, and it was so bad that De-Bug It had to reinstall Vista.
Pranav

i think microsoft recently issued a update (for xp and vista) which disabled the autorun on all drives
Tangmeister

@ThePurps:

I understand that these sorts of messages from your antivirus can be very worrying, and it certainly is a good idea to protect your system from potential viruses, but perhaps you could try an online scanner like Trend Micro Housecall at http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ to be sure that it's not a virus.
shmx

iKill is better http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/iKill.shtml
Afoxi

Malwarebytes gave a false positive. Then again i'm pretty sure malwarebytes called one of my other anti-malwares a trojan.