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i recently installed autorun eater on a laptop with usb security, and eset smart its now refusing to boot whats the matter?

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Good move by to boot Safe Mode and uninstall AutorunEater — that often removes the immediate boot conflict. If many flash sticks still show an autorun, the file is probably sitting on the drives (hidden/system attributes), or the device uses a CD-emulation partition (U3-style) that reappears across machines. Quick, focused steps below will help locate and remove the autorun files and prevent recurrence.

To reveal and delete autorun.inf from a drive (replace E: with the drive letter), open an elevated Command Prompt and run:

attrib -h -r -s E:\autorun.inf
del E:\autorun.inf

If deletion fails, try chkdsk (for file system errors) or scan the USB from a clean environment using a bootable rescue image (for example, ESET SysRescue). Persistent autorun behavior can also come from startup handlers or shell extensions — use Autoruns (Sysinternals) to inspect and remove suspicious entries related to Explorer, Logon, or Drives: Autoruns (Sysinternals).

For a system-wide prevention layer, configure Group Policy (Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → AutoPlay Policies → Turn off AutoPlay = Enabled for all drives) or set the registry NoDriveTypeAutoRun value after backing up the registry. Also note: some vendor tools or CD-emulated USBs recreate autorun.inf; those require vendor utilities or full reflash/replacement. Safe Mode and the scans you ran (as recommended) were correct first steps; next combine the manual cleanup above with Autoruns and a rescue-scan to permanently stop autorun reappearing.

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i recently installed autorun eater on a laptop with usb security, and eset smart its now refusing to boot whats the matter?

Hard to say - could be a a number of things.

-- Are you able to boot to Safe Mode / Safe Mode with Networking? (tap F8 on boot)

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yes ican boot to safe mode i ended up uninstalling the programme after booting on safe mode and restored the system, iscanned the machine nd found no virus but almost every flash comes with autorun.

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It is the computer you have to tell not to auto run, not the flash drive. I have no idea what operating system you have. If running XP a good program to use is . It's a free download, directly from Microsoft.
Once you install it then open the program, in TweakUI expand My Computer, and then AutoPlay. Click on Drives and uncheck the drive letter that you no longer want to auto-play. Click on Apply and that's it. Now if you are using another os then I am not certain if there is a version of this program for others or not.

For Vista this can be done manually quite easily:
Open your Control Panel, and then click on “Play CDs or other media automatically” to open the AutoPlay dialog. The quickest way to disable AutoPlay entirely is to just uncheck the box for “Use AutoPlay for all media and devices”, which should usually work. So when you insert a cd or flash drive you will have to manually open them by double clicking.

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