Virus protection for flash drives

Solution 1:

• Configure your home pc to never autorun USBs when they are mounted
• Keep a policy to never get home executable programs from school
  • get compilable sources and recompile :-)
  • if you need tools from the web download straight from home
• Keep the USB connected at school for a minimum time when transferring data

Of course, if you are happy with moving data from home to school
and never want to get any back home.
Just format the USB every time you get it back from school.

Solution 2:

I actually just use a small SD card reader and an 8GB SD Card. I set the locked switch on the SD Card so that nothing can jump onto this card.

I did look for a large capacity Flash/USB drive with a lock switch, but they're hard to find these days.

Solution 3:

See

http://answers.Yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090616091607AApD6Zy)

for a link. I would've posted it, but have signed out of OpenID, and apparently unregistered/new users can only post one link in a message. And, reading the Yahoo page will be quite useful.

The "unmodifiable" autorun.inf is actually: a) a directory named autorun.inf with SHR attributes that, b) contains a very strange file, named "lpt3.This folder was created by Flash_Disinfector", which can neither be copied, deleted, or renamed by Windows. If I remember correctly, documentation somewhere says that the only way to remove this unmodifiable autorun.inf folder is by formatting the drive. However, Linux is not subject to these restrictions, and can easily copy/move/rename the folder.

Flash_Disinfector.exe is actually a RAR-SFX (self-extracting) archive. One of the archive's contents, nircmd.exe - which is used to silently execute commands - might trigger your existing security software.