Stop viruses infecting your USB Drive
Saturday, September 18th, 2010Virus infection is still very common nowadays infecting USB stick, flash drive, flash disk, flash memory, compact flash card, cf card, secure digital card, sd card, thumb drive, pen drive, removable storage, portable storage, ipod, media player and more. One simple way to protect these removable drives from acquiring virus from computers is making a new autorun.inf file and setting it’s attribute to Read-only. These will deter viruses from modifying your removable drive’s autorun file and execute the virus once your removable drive is inserted to your computer. But this is not foolproof from sophisticated viruses that can easily change your autorun file’s attribute.
Here is a list of removable media protection software that can do greater job in securing your removable drives. I am not affiliated with any of these softwares and their reliability. So use them at your own risk.
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