Not all the softwares 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. So guys ,Here are some software’s that can efficiently protect your system and pendrive from unknown threats and 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 thependrive. 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.
DOWNLOAD : Write protector
2)USB FireWall
As said above, USB write protect software protect your pendrive from viruses, this USB likewise protects your PC from viruses. The software protects your system 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. USBFireWall 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.
DOWNLOAD : USB firewall
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 parametersUSBVaccine.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.
4) USB Guardian
USB Guardian helps you to safely share pictures, movies, documents etc. via yourUSB 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.
Download :USB guardian
Hope these tools will help you in protecting and securing your USB Flash drives/ Pendrive from Viruses and Worms.
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