How to Avoid Virus in Pendrive

Most of virus comes from USB drive, because of the Auto-run feature is enable in most of computers.
But We can disable the same.
Follow the steps to disable the auto-run feature.

First use Group Policy settings to disable all Autorun features : Works with Windows XP/2000/2003 Server.

1. Click Start, click Run, type Gpedit.msc in the Open box, and then click OK.

2. Under Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates, and then click
        System.

3. In the Settings pane, right-click Turn off Autoplay, and then click Properties
        Note : In Windows 2000, the policy setting is named Disable Autoplay.

4. Click Enabled, and then select All drives in the Turn off Autoplay box to disable
        Autorun on all drives.

5. Click OK to close the Turn off Autoplay Properties dialog box.

6. Restart the computer.

For Windows 7


1. Click Start, click Run, type Gpedit.msc in the Open box, and then click OK.

2. Under Computer Configuration, expand Administrative Templates
        expand Windows Components, and then click Autoplay Policies.


3.     In the Details pane, double-click Turn off Autoplay.

4.     Click Enabled, and then select All drives in the Turn off Autoplay box to disable
        Autorun on all  drives.

5.    Restart the computer.

To disable Autorun yourself on operating systems that do not include Gpedit.msc, follow these steps: Works with Windows 7

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.

2. Locate and then click the following entry in the registry:
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutorun. 

3. Right-click NoDriveTypeAutoRun, and then click Modify.

4. In the Value data box, type 0xFF to disable all types of drives. Or, to selectively disable
        specific drives, use a different value as described in the "How to selectively disable
        specific Autorun features" section.

5. Click OK, and then exit Registry Editor.

6. Restart the computer.

Note : To perform this task you should have administrative rights.
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