Saturday, April 23, 2011

Protect your USB Drives from Viruses
Want to protect your USB Flash Drive, iPod and other removable USB storage device from getting infected from virus?
Viruses spread firstly through pen drives when we use in schools, colleges and office. Files like autorun.inf and some other files which will later prevent the virus infection as these files being already created and cannot be deleted, so that 
virus or Trojan cannot copy files and folders or create them on your USB Drive when you connect your drive to virus infected PC.


Here’s how you delete autorun.inf from your USB drives.
Example for USB Flash drive F:

Type the following in the command prompt:
F:
(Press Enter)
DIR
(Press Enter)
DEL autorun.inf
(Press Enter)
Exit
(Press Enter)

You can also delete any files by changing file extensions like:
.inf
.txt
.exe

Note:-Make sure you read it from the directory (DIR)

OR
Autorun Eater:
Autorun Eater was born due to increase of malwares using the ‘autorun.inf’ tactic to infect users unknowingly be it from flash drives, removable hard disks or any other removable storage device.
Download Autorun Eater.
There are some freeware to vaccinate your USB drives from virus infection. I came across a tool called USB Defender. It’s really cool!!!

Features of “USB Defender”
USB Defender is a simple tool which extremely easy to use.
You can see just two buttons on it: “Protect” and “Unprotect”. First button you are using to vaccinate your drive,
When you insert any pen drive USB defender program automatically detects it, if there is any protection active and only one button will be available for you.
USB Defender is fully portable – so you can take it with you wherever you want. Get USB Defender and take it for a spin to see what it can actually do for you!
Download USB Defender.

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