Thursday, September 29, 2011

7 apps to protect your PC from USB viruses

USB and Pendrives are very popular these days, most of us used them to move data between multiple systems frequently. Even though USB drives are very useful, they are one of the biggest reason for viruses. Whenever you attach your USB drive to the infected computer the virus is transferred to the drive with the important documents in USB drive too. It is so easy to get infected these days by viruses after plugging in a pendrive to your system from unknown source.
But you can secure your PC from these types of USB viruses and worms. So Here are 8 software which will help you to protect your system and flash drives from unknown threats and viruses.

 

1. USB Guardian


USB Guardian allows you to safely enjoy file sharing using just an USB thumb drive for copying the files . Movies, mp3s, documents and pictures can be copied from one computer to another without worrying of getting infected with worms and viruses trough USB drive.

2. USB WriteProtector


USB Write Protector only allows data to be read from the pendrives, but it won’t permit data to be written into the pendrive. This is really useful for taking your pendrive and plugging it into your friends’ or relatives’ PC.

3. USB FireWall


USBFireWall is also able to scan all your partitions for auto launched programs and delete the respective autorun file.

4. USB Disk Security


USB Disk Security provides protection against any malicious programs trying to attack via USB drive. It delivers high level of protection against theft and accidental disclosure of confidential data, and prevents unauthorized persons from stealing your data.

5. USB immunizer


USB Immunizer is a simple tool that can reduce that chance of your USB flash drive becoming infected by autorun-based malware.

6. USB Threat Defender


USB Threat Defender is not just another autorun.inf virus remover, it takes more than that to provide maximum protection guarantee. Its new protection level detects viruses missed by the best Anti-Virus to give maximum protection against any threat

7. Panda USB and AutoRun Vaccine


Panda USB Vaccine allows users to vaccinate their PCs in order to disable AutoRun completely so that no program from any USB/CD/DVD drive (regardless of whether they have been previously vaccinated or not) can auto-execute. This is a really helpful feature as there is no user friendly and easy way of completely disabling AutoRun on a Windows PC.

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