Friday, August 6, 2010

HOW TO AVOID VIRUS, SPREADING THROUGH USB DRIVE ?

 Self Help






DON’T GET PANIC ABOUT THE VIRUS ,Try to avoid

• Virus & worms are easily spread by carrying it on a removable medium
such as ,USB drive , I-Pod, CD, Floppy

• USB drive is otherwise called as “Flash Drive”,”Thumb Drive” ,”Memory
stick” ,”External USB Hard Disk”.

• Even though we have very good Antivirus , New Viruses are one step
Ahead than Antivirus

• We cannot restrict USB Drive , but we can avoid spreading of virus &
worms through USB Drive.

• So we have to be little bit careful while working with USB Drive,some
precautionary steps are follows


Step 1 :

• Don’t allow the USB Drive to Auto Play after plug in, cancel it.


STEP 2:



Go to My computer

Devices with Removable storage

Do not Double click the USB Drive



STEP 3:

Go to

Start

Run



Type Pen Drive path .






For example :  E:

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