The recycler virus is one of the most dreaded viruses. The most dangerous thing is that recycler virus makes use of portable devices like usb drives to spread itself. Basic modus operandi of the virus is to keep itself as a hiddent, read-only executable file on the USB. It also inserts a line into the autorun file of the usb pointing to itself. And once you double click on the usb, the virus runs and infects the clean pc.

Removing the recycler virus is as simple as listing files on your usb drive along listing hidden files as well. Look for a file autorun.inf and delete. See my post about removing virus from usb for the exact steps. Hubpages has a good post about usb virus removal as well.

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