PC Advisor: How to clean a virus off a USB stick

Help! A memory stick has infected my PC

By Chris Byers
08 September 10

QUESTION

As a regular speaker at conferences, I carry my presentations on a USB memory key and plug it into the organiser's laptop to access them.

In doing so, I believe my USB drive has picked up some malware. In Windows it appears on the desktop as a green icon with 'Keygen' written on it. It also creates a message box saying 'UpdateNetFramework'. If I delete the file it simply reappears. Symantec Norton Internet Security 2009 hasn't managed to eradicate it, and I now have the same message on all the USB drives I use.

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