Now a days, USB flash drives is the most common and convenient way to transfer files one system to another system. Whether you are school going boy or professional you will need a flash drives atleast once a day.
But while transferring files through USB flash drives our system often get infected from the malicious virus which in turn generates various problems. It is quite obvious that if the USB flash drives will remain infected with virus, it will be affecting the security of every computer with which it is once plugged in.
As we know well that, prevention is better than cure. Thus it is very much necessary that we should be careful of the virus concerns of computer and USB drives. The following post features a list of 10 tools to protect your computer against any infected USB flash drives. Check out these tools, we hope it will be appreciated by you.
USB Disk Security
USB Disk Security provides protection against any malicious program trying to attack via USB flash drive. It delivers high level of protection against theft and accidental disclosure of confidential data, and prevents unauthorized person from stealing your data.
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 software, and provides maximum protection against any threat that tries to attack a system via any USB storage device.
McAfee VirusScan USB
Proven anti-virus security for your USB drive. Automated, daily antivirus updates install silently in the background, ensuring your USB drive is always protected from evolving and emerging virus threats. The software does not provide trial version, but considered it’s the famous brand McAfee, it’s probably worth your consideration! And did I mention 30-day money back guarantee?
USB immunizer
The Immunize option allows you to immunize your USB storage device or SD card against infections with autorun-based malware. Even if your storage device has been plugged into an infected computer, the malware will be unable to create its autorun.inf file, thus annihilating any chance of auto-launching itself.
Panda USB Vaccine
Panda USB Vaccine can be used on individual USB flash drives to disable its autorun.inf file in order to prevent malware infections. When applied on a USB drive, the vaccine permanently blocks the malicious autorun.inf file, preventing it from being read, created, deleted or modified.
Ninja Pendisk
Ninja is the popular and free program designed for guarding computers against viruses transmitted by USB pendisks. This ninja waits quietly in the system tray until an USB pendisk is plugged into the computer, which it will be examined to uncover the commonly malicious or virulent files known as autorun.inf and ctfmon.exe amongst many others.
USB Guardian
USB Guardian allows you to safely enjoy file sharing with USB thumb drive. Movies, MP3s, documents and pictures can be copied from one computer to another without worrying of getting infected by worms and viruses trough USB drive.
Autorun Protector
Autorun Protector is a two-way protection standalone software that prevents your PC from infection by autorun worms and also protects your removable device from being infected from other sources. Hence, it decreases the spread of the virulent worms.
Autorun Virus Remover
Autorun Virus Remover uses proactive technology to permanently remove autorun & autorun.inf viruses, also it can block those viruses trying to infect the system via USB flash drives.
The USB Program
The USB Program is designed to help prevent computers being infected by autorun viruses. The program is loaded into system memory, and technically it automatically renames autorun.inf files on new device into autorun.inf_current date_time, and sets its attribute to “normal”, making it visible for the system. As a result, it isolates any infection.
