Viruses love spreading via removable drives.  And what could be a better medium since every kid and his grandma totes a flashdisk or portable drive these days. It’s because of this that iKill came into existence.

iKill works magic by scanning the drives for the presence of removable discs. When found, it scrutinizes the autorun.inf file for the executables it may run.

If you enabled AutoProtect option the software will automatically deletes the nasties present on the drive. Otherwise, you will be prompted to confirm the deletion of the suspected files. 

Most USB drives whether a pendrive, ipod, mp3 Players, mobile phones, may contain viruses. As ubiquitous  carriers, the drive can unleash a payload  of the viruses and trojans to exploit the autorun.inf file to execute themselves whenever you try to open the drive by double clicking. They even may shadow the Open, Explore, Search, etc, other features using the shell commands.. like..

shellExplorecommand = virus.exe 

Simply clicking on the drive icon and running on Explore, the nasty virus.exe would be launched, infecting the whole system, and then it will start spreading by any means possible…

So, the program parses the autorun.inf for you and deletes the virus/trojans.

There is no use of the autorun.inf in your removable drive, so you can safely delete it.  In fact, if you see such a file on your flashdisk…. be suspicious. Be very suspicious.

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