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Stop viruses infecting your USB Drive

Virus infection is still very common nowadays infecting USB stick, flash drive, flash disk, flash memory, compact flash card, cf card, secure digital card, sd card, thumb drive, pen drive, removable storage, portable storage, ipod, media player and more. One simple way to protect these removable drives from acquiring virus from computers is making a new autorun.inf file and setting it’s attribute to Read-only. These will deter viruses from modifying your removable drive’s autorun file and execute the virus once your removable drive is inserted to your computer. But this is not foolproof from sophisticated viruses that can easily change your autorun file’s attribute.

Here is a list of removable media protection software that can do greater job in securing your removable drives. I am not affiliated with any of these softwares and their reliability. So use them at your own risk.
1. USB Disk Security
USB Disk Security is the best software to block threats that can damage your PC or compromise your personal information from USB storage.
Benefits and Features
Block known and unknown threats from removable media
Best solution to protect offline computer
Fastest and lightest security software
Compatible with other security software
Compatible with all Windows platforms
Very easy to use
Free upgrades

www.zbshareware.com/solutions/index.html

2. Write USB Protector
The USB Write Protector prevents write access to USB storage devices, such as a USB stick. License: Freeware

www.gaijin.at/dlusbwp.php

3. USB Firewall
USB Firewall automatically detects malicious autorun.inf file when an infected USB device is infected, you can also see what command are written in the autorun.inf file which launched the program and decide whether to let it run or delete the file and the file autorun.inf which launched it.

http://www.net-studio.org/application/usb_firewall.php

4. Naevius USB Protector
Key features of Naevius USB Antivirus.

Protection against any Trojans, spyware, worms via USB storage.
Compatible with any antivirus resident like for example: BitDefender, Nod32, Kaspersky, AVG, Norton, McAfee, Panda, AVAST etc.
Protection in realtime with.
100% protection from outside with write-protected dummy “autorun.inf” file.

www.naevius.com/index.htm

5. Ninja Pendisk
Ninja is the popular and freeware program designed for guarding computers against viruses transmitted by USB pendisks.

This ninja awaits quietly in the system tray for the times whenever a USB pendisk is inserted on the computer which will be examined to uncover the commonly malicious or virulent files known as “autorun.inf” and “ctfmon.exe” amongst many others.

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