How to prevent virus from USB

Asked By jack hobs 670 points N/A Posted on - 05/27/2011

Hello my computer is affected with lots of virus through USB drives or devices. I want to prevent them. I don’t want to use any antivirus software. Because antivirus software makes computer heavy and system does not run fast. Is there any other way to prevent computer from affecting virus through USB drives? Please tell me what to do to prevent the virus effect through USB device. It will be a great help to me if any one can help me.

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Answered By allan 0 points N/A #103782

How to prevent virus from USB

There are some other ways to prevent the effect of virus through USB devices. For this you need to write protect the USB devices. You can easily do that. There are a lot of ways to write protect your USB device or drive. Let me tell you a few of them.
You can write protect your USB by using registry editor. To do this you need run the registry editor. You can easily do that by typing regedit in run command prompt. You need to browse HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key to do this. You need to go to the control of this key. For this browse the following:
            HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM Current Control Set Control.
Now create a new key named as Storage Device Policies under the Control tree. Highlight the created key and then create a new DWORD (32 bit) value named as WriteProtect and set its value to 1. Now your drives (USB) are writing protected. If you want to do the vice versa than just set the value to 0.

In this way you can protect your computer from the effect of virus.

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Answered By bruno bright 0 points N/A #103783

How to prevent virus from USB

Hi! Jack,

It’s highly recommended for any PC user to have an Antivirus program on their computer, especially at your end, if you are using a device that has a faster rate of transferring of data and also the virus. If the problem is slowing the performance of your PC when you install some Antivirus program, then why don’t you upgrade the RAM (memory) of your computer?

Hope this info can help.

Bruno

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