Some Dangerous virus spreads in pc when a infected usb pendrive or device is inserted .Samely usb flash drive get infected by inserting in another infected pc.Data loss,that is very likely to happen but the worst thing can happen-pendrive or memory card sometimes become useless.
USB disk,pendrive,memory card can be protected easily by a simple process.
Just create a empty folder named AUTORUN.INF save it in your usb device root directory .Then thats it.
If you can't access to usb device you can do this from command prompt as follows.
- Open command prompt(do this via Start->Run->cmd.exe)
- Change your logged drive to your USB flash drive (e.g. if your usb is at drive E:then type E: on the command prompt then press enter)
- Create a folder named: AUTORUN.INF on the root directory of your flash drive. (to do this type the command: MD\AUTORUN.INF . If an error: a subdirectory already exists… shows,delete the existing folder. E: del autorun.inf
you like to know how it works-
What is Autorun.inf- autorun.inf tells Windows how to deal open the presentation and treat the contents of the Usb device(pen drive,memory card) or CD.This feature is used to make bootable cd.
virus uses this feature to create own autorun.inf folder with some harmfull instruction on it.This virus spreads from pc to usb device or usb device to pc.
Now as usbdevice already contains an empty autorun.inf folder -the virus can't replace it with its own harmful autorun.inf.
Now as usbdevice already contains an empty autorun.inf folder -the virus can't replace it with its own harmful autorun.inf.
