hmm...sounds great.
lemme try it

it's the best for windows environment.

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Added on November 1, 2010, 5:25 pmjust found out that, using NTFS my rmvb player cannot detect my drives.



This post has been edited by ckboon: May 31 2011, 10:54 AM

latest media player now should be able to read NTFS file.. so happy securing ur thumb drive!!

There's another way besides using 3rd party. Have been using for the past 1.5years for PC malware troubleshooting and not an "infection" on my thumb-drive (touchwood).


1. Browse to your removable drive
2. Create a new folder
3. Rename the folder as autorun.inf
4. Now, open the command prompt [how?]
5. In command prompt, change to your drives directory. For example, if your flash drive is labelled I: in My Computer, then type in the command prompt I: and press enter
6. Then type attrib +s +r +h autorun.inf

The last command is to protect and hide your fake autorun.inf and make sure that the file is irreplaceable by the malicious autorun.inf file. Now, next time you plug-in your flash drives on an infected computer, the malicious autorun.inf cannot be copied into your flash drives, thus saving your drives from being a virus carrier afterward. The virus itself, however, might be copied into the drive, but let your anti-virus take care of that.

Lol one year old thread.

Yeah. Might as well just encrypt your pendrive. At least when you plugged in you won't kena at first until you decrypt it. Lol.

lol you had already written the disadvantage for this method. your method will prevent the execution of autorun only, but cannot prevent virus copied to it. hence bringing the infected drive to an unprotected PC then GG lo..

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Added on January 6, 2012, 3:21 pmyea lor... now is the 2nd year.. after so long i just come here t check..

informative stuff can last long



This post has been edited by ckboon: Jan 6 2012, 03:21 PM

autorun


actually both pendrive and the pc itself should have security on it

Im agree with this technique and the technique about creating folder named "autorun.inf".
Virus still can copied itself but its not functioning until user clicked.
But, most of the virus are hid and not visible to be click.

This is good solution to prevent virus coming from USB.


Im suggests you all to use:

1. Autorun killer (Delete autorun automatically)
2. ThreatFire (layer for virus protection)
3. Scotty (Prevent changing of the registry)

guess this thread is still useful as i am still using this traditional method on all my thumbdrive..

I think the best method to prevent this is to just disable Autorun in operating systems and launch it from Explorer as a 'Portable Device'.

-disable Autorun on PC- u needa do it on each and every PC your wanna use.

-disable permission on USB drive - that particular USB drive is secured regardless on any PC you go to.

cheers

well, another way to put it: disable autorun on a pc means none of the usb drives, whether it's yours or others, will trigger autorun. (it's a good practice in general)

by the way disabling permissions on usb drive via ntfs is a nice trick.