How to prevent removable drive from being a carrier of viruses and malware?
1)Sometime you have to transfer data from removable drive to your PC for work and projects. If the PC is infected how do you prevent it from infecting your removable drive?
2)how do you prevent infected removable drive from infecting your PC?
Is there any way to spot it?
Hi,
I would say scanning them would be a good practice,
As well as scanning the computers with he same utilities before inserting the removable hdd...
Cheers.
Panda has a very good tool for this sort of thing:
ANTIMALWARE: Panda USB Vaccine - Download FREE - PANDA SECURITY
Along with Panda USB Vaccine (disables a pen drive's Autorun.inf file), consider using SUPERAntiSpyware Portable Scanner:
Download > SUPERAntiSpyware - SUPERAntiSpyware Portable Scanner
It requires no installation. Just copy it to your pen drive and run it whenever you want to check for and remove infections.
The Panda USB Vaccine, to my understanding, will not protect you from any further infections such as worms or trojans that infect pen drives.
What about when plugging other people's removable drive how to protect from other people?
When you have to plug in other people removable drives what precaution should you take?
You mean scan the files you copied over or the whole removable drive?
If you constantly scan the removable drive would it reduce its live span?
Just wondering, is having an anti virus software sufficient to protect your PC from removable drive threat
As in when the user is a computer newbie (eg.granparents) he/she did not scan the whole drive before using a plug in removable drive to copy or view a file will an AV be sufficient in protecting them from most threat?
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