How to format a USB Flash Drive properly (No, this is not a joke).

MyLittleFella

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Hey fellas, yeah, this thread's name is (just) a little funny but the problem is:
I let some friends (guess I'm not calling them friends after this post) use my laptop for some minutes, and just to f*ck w/ me they deactivated my firewall and antivirus. Now my computer is full of viruses and slow as f*ck. The problem I had my USB flash drive connected to the PC and now it is full of malwares too. I can't format them here cuz' the bad intentioned softwares will automatically return to the drive and I can't do it using another PC or laptop cause it will transfer the malwares to other computers. So, is there a software that I can boot from (just like windows installer) to format my USB Flashdrive?
 
Solution
You should leave the drive disconnected, and clean up your PC. Run your antivirus, and Antimalwarebytes.

Once that is done, you can reformat your flash drive.

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