Secure your USB Drives from Viruses

How to Secure your USB drives from Viruses

USB drives are the most vulnerable thing towards viruses and what if you want to copy some files from a virus affected PC without carrying the viruses with it.Here is a simple trick that you can try and here disabling the writing option to USB is done to achieve this goal.

STEPS to disable the USB writing option:

1. Click Start->Run

  2.Type Regedit

Here locate the location to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control

3.Here in right side panel, click right to create a key with the name “StorageDevicePolicies”.

4.Now in left side panel, select “StorageDevicePolicies” key, again right click to create new DWORD value then label it “WriteProtect”. Set its value to “1″. But again to enable writing, set its values to “0″.

5.Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

Note: Extra care should be taken while editing your registry as it could damage your system.

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