Wednesday, September 16, 2009

How to Stop Trojans Infecting your USB Drive

This topic is very important for all the computer users who often use pen drives or USB drives for carrying file from one computer to another. Today’s discussion how to stop trojans infecting our usb drive will help you how to deal with the virus, worm or trojans. We face a problem of USB drive getting infected by virus and trojans a lot. Sometimes there is another scenriao like when a infected pen drive or USB drive is connected or inserted in the computer or laptop, the virus or trojan in the usb drive starts operating on affecting the computer although we are not doing any action like clicking any file of the US drive. So what is the way to stop trojans infecting our usb drive or what should we do in order to stop trojans infecting our computer automatically once the USB drive is connected?

Well a simple way to disable any virus, worm or trojan from entering our USB drive, is to create a folder by the name of “autorun.inf“. Once this is done, right click on the folder, navigate to properties, hide the folder as well as write protect it. This work as well as with a text file of the same name. This ensures that even if a virus, trojans or worm does get into USB drive , it does not being to operate as soon as the drive is connected to any computer or laptop. So try this one. It might help you a lot. Best of Luck

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