How to Protect the Pen Drive from Virus ?

15 Jun

The technology has advanced but the cruel elements have advanced up at a much faster pace. Still our USB drives get infected with viruses when we connect them to our computers and within seconds the pace of the pen drive slows down and we get so many viruses and our files as shortcuts. The pen drive viruses are one of the most common viruses coded .
So, the question arises :

Inspite of having an antivirus the pen drive still got infected by a virus . How is it Possible?

Firstly, Impossible is nothing. If I call a spade a spade, there are 1000′s of viruses and trojans which could effect your pen drive the moment it is connected to the computer without coming in the net of the antiviruses. Large number of viruses are coded and released daily and the antivirus updates hardly come like 2-3 in a month . Moreover, each and every antivirus is not effective enough to detect these viruses and trojans and protect USB drive.

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So, How can you Protect Pen Drive from Viruses?

The Pen drives can be protected from such viruses and trojans using a simple trick which would restrict the virus transfer from the computer to the USB . We can protect pen drive from viruses by write protecting USB Drive.

Open Notepad and paste the following code in it :

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlStorageDevicePolicies]
“WriteProtect”=dword:00000001

Save the file with “.reg” extension .

Double click on the file you saved and if a box pops up choose the option as “Yes ” and then click Ok.

Please Note : This is a simple trick that disables the writing options of the USB drive so that no file can be written .

How to Turn this Option Off ?

Again open notepad and paste the following code :

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlStorageDevicePolicies]
“WriteProtect”=dword:00000000

Save the file with “.reg” extension .

Double click on the file you saved and if a box pops up choose the option as “Yes ” and then click Ok.

Even if the writing option is disabled, you can access the files of the USB drive and get them on the computer but cannot transfer a file from computer to the pen drive. We have written Bitdefender Review earlier . We hope this simple trick helped you in getting rid of the pen drive viruses.