WHAT IS VIRUS ?
A virus is a man-made computer program that infects a file or program on our computers.
Each time the program is run, the virus is also triggered.
It replicates or spreads itself by infecting other programson the same computer.
WHAT IS AUTORUN VIRUS?
Two main facts for the autorun virus is
1.AUTORUN.INF FILE,
2.AUTOPLAY FEATURE.
When you double click on the PENDRIVE/CD icon , operating system searches for the “autorun.inf” from the device.
And if found,then it runs that file otherwise it shows the contents inside the device.
This feature of the OS is called “AUTOPLAY”
But the “AUTORUN.INF” file must be coded errorless and in its typical format.
HOW TO CODE AUTORUN FILE?
1.Open Notepad
2.Copy & Paste following 2 lines :
[autorun]
shellexecute=notepad.exe
3.save this file as "autorun.inf" into your pendrive.
4.close everything and double click on pendrive's icon.
it will open notepad but will not open pendrive itself.
DEMO
CONCLUSION
Though this is very simple action that can be performed by Autorun.
(i.e)open notepad
You can edit it up to your limit when someone double click on pendrive,
1)shutdown computer
2)format the hard drive
3)corrupt data
4)delete important files
5)your imagination......
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