Sharing a flash drive these days is like sharing a soda - everyone does it, nobody thinks twice, and someone inevitably ends up with Mono. Viruses can latch onto flash drives to transfer themselves to other computers. To see if your computer is infected with a flash drive virus, here's what you do:1. Insert a clean flash drive that you"re fairly certain doesn't have anything nasty on it.2. On a PC, go the Start button, then the Accessories menu, then click on Command Prompt3. Type in "type autorun.inf" and press Enter4. If you see something like what's pictured below, then you have a virus:
5. If you do have a virus, it's time to run a virus-scan of your whole computer. For this purpose you can use free software like ad aware AVG (thanks for the suggestion coffee-eyes!)If you want to prevent such infections in the future, click here for more info (scroll down to #4)