Peek-A-Boo: A method to remove virus out of your USB drive without getting infected!

Scenario: You have a USB drive in your hand and are scratching your head as to insert it into your PC or not ( the style of to-do-or-not-to-do) . Because you know it has viruses and you cant format it also because of the all important data. So this is where i step in or rather this post steps in. (It has legs, mind you)

OK. I will make all the work easy for you. Just follow the following steps.

First Download TREE SIZE PROFESSIONAL from the publisher site.

OR Download TREE SIZE PROFESSIONAL from CNET

The above mentioned software shows the space usage of your drives in graphical format.

As you know viruses get activated when you access the USB drive. But if TREE SIZE accesses the USB drive then virus is not activated.So i thought of playing a peek-a-boo and catching the virus unawares( not in your hand, of course) by exploring the space usage and then delete it.

So after you install right click the USB drive and see the listing. You will see a screen like this.

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Now you can identify the virus, provided you know before hand what files were there in your pendrive.

Now delete the virus by right-click-the-file-and-delete .