How To Prevent A USB Drive From Malicious Virus
I like to elaborate on this problem because it’s like an A(H1N1) virus transmitting very quickly in our beloved computers.
Here are some tips that i can give you.
It may or may not contain an autorun.inf that can execute the virus before it can be detected by an antivirus.
When you plug in your flashdrive, close the popup dialog box that windows would like you to do. Then if you would like to open the removable drive, just press “Window Key + E” to activate Windows Explorer.
Then go to the left side of explorer window where you can see your drives. Navigate your drive by clicking (+) instead of double clicking the flashdrive. Then proceed to the right panel where you can see all your documents and other stuffs on your flashdrive.
By double clicking on the flashdrive, this will execute autorun.inf and load the unwanted virus on your PC. but by using this method, autorun.inf will not be executed and your trusted antivirus will detect it automatically.
* How to prevent your USB flashdrive from acquiring malicious autorun.inf
To prevent your portable thumbdrive from aquiring autorun.inf, here’s how to do it.
Create an “autorun.inf” FOLDER on the removable drive and set it to HIDDEN (right click on autorun.inf folder and Select Properties. In General Tab, you must enable hidden attribute of that folder). This will prevent malicious autorun.inf to transfer on your thumbdrive.
Is that easy =)
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June 20th, 2009 at 4:41 AM
I think the best solution is don’t use your USB drive to another computer except your personal pc.
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