How to protect USB Pendrives/Flashdrives from VIRUS ?

Lets Protect USB Pendrives / flash drives from Viruses.

Most often our system get infected with virus soon after a USB pendrive has been plugged in. These days it is so easy to get infected by viruses by plugging in a pendrive to your system from unknown source (may be your friends one or your college desktops).

Not all the security programs can defend your pc against the virus attacks carried out through pendrives. But if we can take necessary steps, then we can be safe from such viruses, worms and spywares spreading through pendrives/ flash drives.

So here are some software’s that can efficiently protect your system and pendrive from unknown threats ad viruses.
1.USB Write Protector

It is a software that can help you in write protecting your Pendrive. USB Write Protector allows only to read the data from the pendrive but it wont permit to write data into the pendrive. This is really useful if you take your pendrive to plug on to your friends or relatives pc, as most of the virus enter the pendrive unknowingly. USB Write Protector is a small program, around 190kb in size.

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USB Write Protector

The program doesn’t need any installation and can be directly run from the location. On running the program the window just shows up with just two option to enable write Protection in your Pendrive/ USB Flash Drive and to Turn Off the USB Write Protection. Its that simple. You just need to pick the option and click on OK.
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2)USB FireWall

As said above, USB write protect software protect your pendrive from viruses, USB firewall likewise protects your PC from viruses. The software protects your system from security threats by launching itself as soon as a USB peripheral is inserted. As soon as USB firewall is launched it works in the background and a window appears when some program tries to launch out automatically since a peripheral USB. USB FireWall is also able to scan all your partitions for auto launched programs and delete the respective autorun file.

USB Firewall is 3.3 MB in size.

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3) Panda USB Vaccination Tool

: It’s a great Tool from Panda that will disable the autorun function from your computer completely and it has a special ability to add a autorun.inf file of its own which can’t be read or deleted or modified. So the autorun virus wont be able to modify it and your system will be safe from the autorun.inf virus even if you plug the pendrive.

You can create a shortcut to the Panda Vaccination Tool with the parameters USBVaccine.exe /resident /hidetray +system and copy the shortcut to the windows startup folder, so that each time a USB device is plugged onto your system, the program popups automatically asking you for vaccination.

Download Panda USB Vaccination Tool
4) USB Guardian

USB Guardian helps you to safely share pictures, movies, documents etc. via your USB pendrive without the risk of being infected by viruses and worms that spread through the pendrives. USB Guardian boasts a clean and simple interface so that so that the user can work with minimum effort.

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USB Guardian

USB Guardian blocks any programs from being automatically executed from a pendrive and thereby it isolates the autorun directives on the removable device.
USB Guardian then scans for any autorun.inf file on the flash drive to check whether it references to any additional files on the pendrive. If any such files are found it automatically blocks those files.

The Locked files will be inaccessible by any other program and you can unlock it using USB Guardian itself if you think the program is harmless. USB guardian is free for use and is 2.96 MB in size.

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Hope these tools will help you in protecting and securing your USB Flash drives/ Pendrive from Viruses and Worms.Comments awaited:)