Be safe from Pen Drives

Trouble:

I will tell you how pen drives normally infect your computer systems and how can you open pen drive safely and back up your important data. How a virus in your pen drive infects? Most of the active viruses infect your windows system as soon as you double click on the Pen Drive icon in your my computer. As virus always creates a autorun.inf file which is a system ,hidden and a read only file on your pen drive. It point to the main virus file which is also located on the pen drive. When user double clicks on the pen drive files pointed by the autorun.inf got executed which copies the virus files on your system. Let’s see how can you protect yourself by following certain practices. Fix:

Let’s discuss these practices one by one:

1. Disable Autorun on Your Pen Drive:

* Open to Start >> Run and type “gpedit.msc” (without quotes) and press enter. This will open Group policy editor. * Browse to Administrative templates >> System >> double click on Turn off Autoplay click on Enabled and Under Settings >> Select All Drives in the drop down and click OK

2. Scan Your Pen Drive:

Whenever you insert your pen drive / portable drive into USB port on your system make sure to run a virus scan with your anti virus before opening your pen drive contents in windows explorer.