In almost all today’s computers the biggest threat is virus. It is not like that it is all because of Internet. Even before Internet viruses and Trojans horses were spreading into the systems via floppy disks. Just because of these problems anti-virus software’s has started capturing the market. Today, another important everyday item for all computer users is flash drives. They have become very popular just because of the prices have gone down very low. And another good thing is just in a small storage capacity you can store lots of your data.
Main concept behind launching of flash drive is portability. It can give you good facility to transfer your data from one place to other place. But, another drawback with using flash drives is they are also the best medium for transportation and distribution of virus and worms from one system to another system. You also heard from many that my system is completely clean because I have very good anti-virus software installed. That is perfectly right. But have you ever checked that is your anti-virus program is configured in such a way that it can check for the new files and programs. Many of the anti-virus programs are automatically not configured to do so. That’s why they can’t detect the worms in your flash drive. So, there are some common tips which you need to take care to protect your flash drive from being infected from Viruses and Worms.
One of the very first things which you should do is make sure that you configure your anti-virus software so that it can immediately scan flash drives as they are detected. Even you should also include Malware scanning. Another thing you can do is you should regularly perform scanning of your flash drive for viruses and worms. You can find out many products available on Internet which can do the task for you. So, just select a type of product which is best suitable for you. You can see that almost all products available can perform same functionality but some of the product is very easy to use and not all of the products even catch every type of worms. So, try to find out a product which specializes in one particular area not like all-in-one products which might not be able to give a best solution to your problems related to worms. There are very less chances that some products can perform extremely well and it is going to be very effective to find out the solution to your worms problem.
Another good tip is you should always keep a practice of safe computing. That means if you are going to use someone else’s flash drive into your system and first think about it from where it has come and before using it make sure that you are completely scanning it very well. By doing this you are not only going to protect your computer system but with that you are also going give a solution to your friends flash drive which was having a problem which he or she might not be knowing.
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