Sometimes pen drives infected such type viruses which is not easily removed by Antivirus programs and formatting through windows. If you want to understand more about this you can visit the following ISC discussion. So it is always useful to scan pendrive before opening it. Thus it will effect your system without you knowing it. But some viruses also use this file as base and effect your system because this file is generated and executed as soon as you connect pendrive to computer. If you are thinking autorun.inf seen in your pendrive as virus it is wrong because it is a autogenerated file by our system to maintain information like drive name etc. So always scan your computer after and before using any external devices with it like pendrive, DVD etc. It is always best to maintain a proper and healthy anti-virus because even sometimes after deleting virus infected files there may be traces of them stored in our computer which may again come back. As mam said you need to first unhide the hidden files and then delete the virus infected files. When you type the disk name you will get the list of items present in it. As said by Jebaprincy mam, you can directly delete the corrupted files using command prompt and typing the pen drive disk name.
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