Steps to protect a USB device from virus

Every internet user carries a USB flash drives because it keeps data secure and sharing the information is a very easy task from one space to other.USB flash devices are used in the wide way as it provides lot of facilities to its customers to perform their work in the easy way. Usually flash drives are very small size to carry where we can store GB’s of information in it.

While coming to the virus topic USB devices has the possibility of carrying viruses in it which causes harm to the devices connected to it. Here we summed up some preventive measures and steps to prevent USB from virus attacks. Follow the below steps carefully



Steps: How to protect USB from Virus attack
Here we have mentioned some specific methods which can be adapted to any operating system
To protect USB drive from virus first of all it requires the permission from NTFS.In the we are going to mention about the steps needed in converting the USB drive into a NTFS file system.”The FAT 32 is a security system which can be used on different kind of operating systems like MAC, Windows and Linux.

• 1.) Connect your USB device to the system and then go to the start menu and search for device manager then open it
• 2.) After opening the device manager locate your USB device connected to the system and make right click on the USB drive then select properties
• 3.) To select the better performance option to the USB device you should further go to the policy tab option and then press on removal policy option there
• 4.) Now move on to the MY COMPUTER option and locate the USB drive then right click on the USB and choose format
• 5.) While following the steps, the user should make sure to have selected NTFS from the file system menu
• 6.) After all these steps finally click on the start button to format the USB drive using NTFS file system

The above steps are used for successfully formatting the USB drive using the NTFS file system


Configure root of USB

Follow the below steps to carry out the configuration process on your drive which is required for rooting the device in read only mode

• 1.) Move on to the MY COMPUTER space there locate your USB flash drice and select properties
• 2.) To make read only mode go to the security tab appears there and select everyone access only and give read only rights for the root folder
• 3.) Write folder can also be created to allow reading and writing within it and data can also be saved in the folder

Device Block

To protect your system from the unauthorized USB devices Device block is used.It actually works as an anti virus tool which prevents the USB flash drive from spreading virus within the system.