Prevent Virus from USB Flash Drive Infects Computer
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Viruses, worms, trojans and the likes do not only infect computer through downloaded files, but also from USB flash drives. Once a flash drive containing worm connected to a computer, the worm will replicate itself as many as it can, eating up your harddisk space and decreasing computer performance. Instead of disabling the USB autorun feature, this freeware USB Firewall alerts you whenever a malicious program tries to launch itself from USB drive using autorun.inf file. More »
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The advantage of creating autorun file in USB drive is that you can launch a program without having to manually launch it. For example, you can autoplay a video once you connect your USB drive with an USB port. No need to crawl to the folder again to look for the program. Simply connect your USB drive and the program will run automatically. It isn’t limited to program or executable files only. You can also autorun documents, pictures or videos. 