Write protect your USB/Thumb/Pen Drive
It happens with me many time that I
had to copy some files from my pen drive to our college lab and the moment I
plugged in my pen drive, it gets infected with dozens of viruses. Yes, its true
that our college labs are too infected. Now before I can use the pen drive
again, I need to make sure to clean it first so that the virus may not spread
on more computers. I scan for my pen drive using NOD32 and no doubt it
completely remove all traces of virus but it wastes my time as I always have
over 2 GB of files that I carry with me all the time.
So I came to know of this trick of
write protecting the drive so that I can safely copy things I want without the
worry of virus being copied on my USB drive. Although you won’t be able to
write any thing on your pen drive, its still very useful in case you want
something to copy from your pen drive and don’t want to get infected. Before
proceeding I must tell you that playing with the registry can be harmful for
your Operating System (OS) and I advise you to take a backup of your registry
in case anything goes wrong. Read how to Backup Windows Registry.
This trick works only on XP SP2 and
you need to have administrator privileges.
The drawback of this trick is that
you need to remember this trick by yourself and you need to restart the PC
after applying this trick. Killing explorer.exe and restarting it will
not do the job everytime. I am still looking for any other ways fo protecting
your drives and I will post in on my blog if I found a better trick than this
one. Share your thoughts in the comment.
Source:
http://blog.ashfame.com/2008/04/write-protect-usb-thumb-pen-drive/