Is your computer suspected of "VIRUS INFECTION"??? Just follow this basic tutorial and your computer will just work fine.
First, you need to understand how a virus infects a thumbdrive from an infected computer. When a computer is infected, a process is created by the virus; will be running in the background. Whenever you plug in your thumbdrive and autorun is enabled, the virus will infiltrate your thumbdrive thus continuing the vicious cycle.
Step 1: Disable Autorun (Applicable to WinXP Pro & Vista)
Go to start > Run > type in gpedit.msc > Press Enter
Enable for all drives ... and you are done
Step 2: Tips to remove virus from thumbdrives
1) Download winrar or 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org) 2) Plug in your thumbdrive into your computer
Go to start > all programs > 7-zip/winrar
Click on computer
Select Removable Drive
Del anything that end with .cmd .inf and probably .exe (if you do not know what file it is)
** Be sure that you know the content of your thumbdrive
