Most of malware found now-a-days are spreading via flash drive.
Here is a tip, how to make your flash drive virus proof.
By doing this your flash drive will not allow to be written or executed at its root, where they host the malicious files on your pendrive, the folder that you created will have total control and without the existence of virus. Unless you put a virus there.
Click to Watch how to do this?
1st step: Format your pen drive as FAT32 (right click on your pen icon and click format). If your pen is formatted to NTFS , and skip to step 3.
2nd step: Lets convert the pen drive to NTFS, open cmd.exe and type “convert e: /fs:ntfs” (without quotes), where “e:” is the pen drive letter attributed by windows.
3rd step: Open my computer->Organize->folder and search options->View Tab and untick “use sharing wizard”
4th step: Make a new folder in your pen drive, and from now you will put your files in that folder.
5th step: Now right click in your pen drive icon, click properties and go to the security tab.
6th step: In permissions for all users only leave ticked the “read and execute”, “list folder contents”, and “read”.
7th step: Repeat step 6 but instead of setting the security parameters to the pen drive do it only for the folder that you created inside it.(Now edit permissions again to all users but now give total control).
Here is a tip, how to make your flash drive virus proof.
By doing this your flash drive will not allow to be written or executed at its root, where they host the malicious files on your pendrive, the folder that you created will have total control and without the existence of virus. Unless you put a virus there.
Click to Watch how to do this?
1st step: Format your pen drive as FAT32 (right click on your pen icon and click format). If your pen is formatted to NTFS , and skip to step 3.
2nd step: Lets convert the pen drive to NTFS, open cmd.exe and type “convert e: /fs:ntfs” (without quotes), where “e:” is the pen drive letter attributed by windows.
3rd step: Open my computer->Organize->folder and search options->View Tab and untick “use sharing wizard”
4th step: Make a new folder in your pen drive, and from now you will put your files in that folder.
5th step: Now right click in your pen drive icon, click properties and go to the security tab.
6th step: In permissions for all users only leave ticked the “read and execute”, “list folder contents”, and “read”.
7th step: Repeat step 6 but instead of setting the security parameters to the pen drive do it only for the folder that you created inside it.(Now edit permissions again to all users but now give total control).
