You know that Pen & flash drive is a very popular device and generally used for transferring & storing data. But using of such type of device can be create problem for your computer some time or I can also say that USB / pen drive’s behave like a virus transporter and one other thing which help this.

Name of this helper – Autoplay system in windows operating system (vista, seven, xp)

But some say it is good and others are bad. After listen this type of things, I decide write something about in this matter and what the strategy that may you  follow according to your work and choose batter option,so that you decide what is good and what bed is, for you.

When you attach your pen drive with your pc, an auto play popup display on your screen and ask you what do you want?

This is very good option when you attach pen drive because you don’t need to double click your computer icon and then double click your pen drive icon.

But according to today’s scenario Autoplay option is not secure for your system.

The main drawbacks of autoplay option is that, pen / flash or any USB drive are the big source to spread virus between computer and most of the virus work with auto play option because writer of the virus also know this things.

So this is a good choice for you to disabled pen / flash drive auto play option.

You can permanently disable your system auto play option but in this situation every time you need to open your drive with many clicks.

I know that, this type of setting can slow your work but in the bases of your Pc infected by any virus. This may be good deal for you.

Follow these instructions to disable autoplay option

Open control panel > classic view (top left side) > and double click on Autoplay icon.

Unselect “Use Autoplay for all media and devices” check box

And click on save button.

If you think that you don’t need disabled autoplay all time.

Ok, you can do this, But in this situation transfer data only trusted source or you know confidently and believe that pen/ flash/Usb drive don’t have any virus or malicious code.

Or you can also do other things if you know which people or friend ‘s pen / flash drive always have virus, and Every time when you attach your pen / flash drive, press and hold the Shift key, this will disable the auto play dialog box. Holding down the Shift key will also block the applications that starts automatically (mostly virus).

If you don’t interested this type of configuration and believe in Usfaw (Using software for any work) you can also try some of the free software.

Ikill 1.2.x

USB Firewall 1.1.x

This tip  work  for windows-7 ,Windows vista & xp

Tags: security, usb drive, virus, Windows Vista, windows-7