[sathyabee]

I copied a file from my friend's laptop..
And after i copied i saw that he had a virus called username.exe and it created a "keshav.exe" in every folder of his laptop...
each is a un-openable, un-deletable, exe file of 178 kb...
Now its in my pendrive...
How can i get rid of it in my pendrive and his laptop...
Formatting the pendrive doesn't work...

Luckily i din put it in my PC so its still safe..
But there is an important file i want to copy from the pendrive..
Pls help...
Thanks in advance...

[Cookiegal]

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