My Pen Drive and my system both are infected with Virus

[Tritanic]

I have Kingston 4GB usb drive. I had given that to my friend for sometime. When he returned I connected that to my system to copy some data. My antivirus just popped out a warning that there is a RECYCLER S-xxxxxx virus. And because my system is also infected. I am using free edition AVG antivirus. It is not updated. Does because the system is infected. I have seen in antivirus report that there are virus called as autorun, ramnit, sality, new heur, and they have shortcuts inside the usb drive. How to get rid of this.

[Captain Samuel Salt]

In my views I will recommend you to use Norton Antivirus. This is one of the best antivirus for virus you had mentioned. There is a trail version available on internet just download and update it first. Then scan your system. I will recommend to run Full System scan. This will take hours to complete but it is worthy.

[Reese-R]

I think AVG free edition Antivirus is not enough good. Always scan your pen drive whenever you connect it. I am using Kaspersky Internet Security. It is a good antivirus. You can test it with trail version.

[Eeshwari3]

There is a tool called Repair USB Flash Drive 4.0.1.6. You can format the pen drive with it. Just install and try it.