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Comment from chetanyasharma on 2009-10-11

2009-10-11T08:40:01Z

i have a virus in my memory card i want to remove virus and download anti virus

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Comment from amany on 2009-10-08

2009-10-08T14:50:56Z

i agree with u Leo in what u said but there are one comment why we cant not remove the virus directly without format the card ,as i know there memory card is like the excess hard on the computer .
then there is no problem to treat it with the same way

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Comment from janz on 2009-09-03

2009-09-03T12:12:40Z

hi, pls help me, my mmc memory card was eaten by a virus, i'm not familiar with the virus but i think it was a comwarrior that comes into mutation that makes it even stronger that my avast anti virus can't even rid of it. it just says unreadable or unknown format. it can't even be formatted either... please help me.

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Comment from hadi on 2009-06-03

2009-06-03T23:36:54Z

the memory card was working normaly on my phone suddenly it starts to show every time i want to go to memory card that " memory card not formated do u want to format memory card " & i am afraid to format it so that i will lose all my data
so leo what is the solution

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Comment from princess on 2009-04-23

2009-04-23T12:40:20Z

hei.. i juxt want to axk that wheneve i tried to reformat me micro sd card it says unable to complete. when i tried to erase all the datas. it will only be gone a few seconds. and when i still inserted it the data still remains. i know it has virus but how can i re4mat it?

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Comment from www.pshycic.de.tl on 2009-04-18

2009-04-19T02:24:23Z

ok! this articles was nor helpfull to me! my merory ard is on my mobile phone. I FORMATTED IT MANY TIMES FROM MY MOBILE. but when i join it to computer it tells that the disk is not formatted and i try to format my card from computer but then tells" the formatt is incomplete" . And my phone also shut off and on automatically when inserting card on toit. please help me.mail me at [email address removed]

Did you consider that perhaps the memory card is bad?

- Leo
19-Apr-2009

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Comment from shiv on 2009-03-17

2009-03-17T07:31:35Z

Hi i have brought 4gb micro scandisk memory card for my mobile ,but its not working if i take photo it shows format not supported if i create folder in it the format of folder changes , anything copied from PC to card there is change in the format . i cant delete the folder created also. I tried to format it but still its the same.

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Comment from Wani on 2008-12-18

2008-12-18T15:50:25Z

Hi I have compaq prasario c772tu with win xp sp2, when i connect any removable device, the system shows there is no device in drive please insert a dis, but works. how can i solove the problem

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Comment from shiv on 2008-11-04

2008-11-05T06:54:52Z

I have brought new 4GB Micro sd card for my mobile phone , but the card has now got virus in it , if i format also it is not going out , what should i do.
How can i remove virus from it.

How do you know it has a virus? Formatting an SD card will remove everything, including any viruses. You could be getting re-infected if your machine also has that virus, though.

- Leo
05-Nov-2008

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Comment from virus remover on 2008-10-28

2008-10-28T22:11:50Z

Its better you can use virus removal software from this site http://www.virusremovalsoftwares.org/

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Comment from Divya on 2008-09-05

2008-09-05T11:18:45Z

I have got a canon camera with 4 gb memory card.
Now if i put the card in a card reader it is showing the icon down on the desktop, but not listing the drive in My Computer or showing any contents. Is it affected by a virus? If so how to remove it?

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Comment from killviruses on 2008-06-26

2008-06-26T21:55:24Z

The easiest way to remove these kinda viruses is to download live one care.
go to http://www.killviruses.net to delete these virsues. It has the free trail on the website.

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Comment from Martin Nyama on 2008-06-20

2008-06-20T12:16:57Z

The way i see it is that some viruses are easily destroyed in safe mode. If you can load everything on your card onto your local hardrive and switch to safe mode. You also need to find the name of the virus you can, if you can find information about the virus; its behaviour etc, the easier you can get rid of it. I would also like to point out that formatting a hardrive every now and then kind of shortens its life span.

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Comment from Randy on 2008-06-18

2008-06-18T16:57:08Z

*grumble* -- you have your MT set to kill off links, I guess. The "this article" in my comment linked here:
http://ask-leo.com/is_it_safe_to_connect_a_drive_infected_with_a_virus_to_my_computer.html

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Comment from Randy on 2008-06-18

2008-06-18T16:55:51Z

Leo, there's something he needs to do before he sticks the card into his computer to reformat it: TURN OFF AUTORUN! That's presumably how the virus spreads in the first place, with an "autorun" program on the card. You did discuss this in this article, but maybe you need a separate one on how to turn autorun off, and why it's such a good idea....

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Comment from Linda on 2008-06-17

2008-06-17T21:12:17Z

Gord, But what if this particular virus embeds itself into a picture (jpeg, etc.)? Wouldn't it spread to the friend's computer?

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Comment from Gord Campbell on 2008-06-17

2008-06-17T18:58:00Z

Patrick: copy your pictures to your computer, then burn them to a CD. Take the CD to a friend's PC to make sure you have the pictures. Then reformat the memory card on the camera, as Leo told you to do.

Also: pick one anti-virus program and live with it.

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Comment from poster on 2008-06-12

2008-06-13T02:49:52Z

Hello Leo,
Thanks so much for the post of the question and answer! :)
I do have a card reader on my computer. I do have the option to reformat it. I also saw that I forgot to list how I know I am not infected by it right now, I have a wonderful solution on my system called deepfreeze. what it does is freeze the whole system in one state and reboots, then I can do whatever I like and if I see something like a virus I restart and get rid of it with a reboot. unfortunately without it running 24/7 I get attacked and have had to reformat once every 2-3 weeks for the last few months, even with running the anti virus firewall router anti spyware.. just visiting sites like youtube and AOL.
The tools I use to get rid of viruses are as follows- avast anti virus, avg, super anti spyware, smitrem, smitfraud fix, kill process, spybot s&d ccleaner, coffee cup privacy cleaner, deepfreeze... none running at the same time i.e. virus shields or firewall's. some how this virus got onto my system at one point and put itself on my camera disc before I reformatted my hard drive.
and with reformatting the whole camera drive I got some pictures I just cant replace. so im wondering if there's a way to find out which files are infected or if they all are
I believe I know who this particular virus is from an old ex friend, is there any way to maybe decode it enough to get it to an anti virus company so they can fix it with they're software?
Thanks so much Leo !! :)
Patrick

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