Avoiding virus from USB flash drive

Nowadays, virus programmers seemed to have an easy way of propagating their virus – through USB flash drive. A lot of computer users who does not know how virus propagates are the usual victim of this.

The most effective way of propagating virus from USB flash drive is when the user double-clicks on the flash drive icon to open the device. Through the autorun configuration of the drive which will be called during the double-click event, a malicious command maybe inserted in it.

Avoiding running the autorun script will prevent the virus to be activated. To do so, the next time you will use your flash drive, remember not to double-click it, instead go to the address bar and choose the drive. In this way, you were able to bypass the autorun script that might contain the malicious command. Another way of bypassing the autorun script is by doing a right-click on the drive and choose Open instead of Autoplay.

Furthermore, always scan your USB flash drive with an updated virus scanner especially after using it with an unprotected computer.