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GetAdviced.com: How to Prevent USB virus attack

  • matuh · 10 months ago
    Thanks for good information! I'll try this.
  • Hesti · 10 months ago
    thanks for the information,..
    nice blog
  • lvs · 10 months ago
    Many cybercafes in my neighbourhood dont even allow customers to plug in USB drives. Your suggestion to disable the autorun feature sounds excellent. I hope cybercafes would do that and allow customers to use USBs.
  • webmaster · 10 months ago
    Its better to prevent virus than to remove it from the system after affecting.
  • Abu Bakr · 10 months ago
    now this is some useful post! yesterday all the PCs in my school network got owned cause of this :P
    this is really pain in the butt i tell you, but no more :D
  • teguh · 10 months ago
    Many thanks Sandeep, this is very usefull information, I'll try it..
  • adnanthp · 10 months ago
    I think this is only a temporary solution, when we use thumbdrive, then copy and paste activity won't be avoided, and nothing can guarantee that file are virus free.
    The only solution for this problem IMHO, is using virus free system, either using Windows with a lot of, updated virus database or using Linux.
    I'm using Linux for almost 3 years, and never been infected with any virus at all and the side effect is my resource didn't ate by that monstrous anti virus app :D
  • mayhem · 10 months ago
    I actually had no idea this was happening, thanks for the heads up
  • Sammy · 9 months ago
    Thanks man, virus attack is keep on going crazy every time, we need every thing there;s need to know about how to prevent it from happening
  • health and beauty care · 8 months ago
    That is a very good explanation of the auto run feature and how windows opens the file without you knowing .Especially if you are using a fileshare ,care is needed when transferring from one pc to another , if , as I do ,you use your old outdated laptop for the share so as not to keep infecting your main pc (which you use for credit card details and such).. Worst I have found is avg 8 finding viruses and disabling them , when they are not , like the alexa ie6 toolbar!
  • Promotional Discount Codes · 8 months ago
    The 'autorun.inf' is a system file. So you need to make the settings to 'Show' hidden files and system files, in order to see that file.