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Prevent Virus spreading from USB Flash Drive

June 15, 2008 | In: Virus | 592 views

Today, USB flash drive has become everyday usage, beside practical, the price was the other reason, compare to few year ago the price has decreased significantly. But many people still not aware to secure his computer from virus attack from this device or maybe they are don’t know.

Why this is important? One of the reason is “Autorun” feature on windows. This feature will enable device such USB Fash Drive to automatically run application when plugged to Computer. So virus easily spread to the computer when this device infected by virus. Beside using antivirus, there is another tip to secure our computer.

  1. Open Registry Editor, by click on Start Menu > Run and then type regedit press enter or just click OK

  2. Find the location bellow :
    KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

  3. make ney key ( Right click > New > DWORD Value ) and give the name : NoDriveAutoRun

  4. Double click to fill teh value ( data ). Select Base : Decimal and fill Value data with 67108863

    Registry autorun

  5. You must make other change (just like the above step) in this location :
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

  6. After finish, Restart the Computer. Everytime we plugged USB flash drive to the Computer, no application will launch automatically.

Settings:
User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
Name: NoDriveAutoRun
Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value: 32-bit bitmask

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