How to: Two Ways to Protect Your Pen Drive from Viruses

You must have had some annoying moments with USB pen drives viruses at some point of your life. Its so frequent that its considered to be normal by some. So how can we protect ourselves from this chronic irritation? I know nothing is fool proof but, with better tactics and preventions, you can save a lot of time and important data inside your pen drive once and for all. So here are two ways.

1. Make Use of Software Restriction Policy

Use software restriction policy in group policy. This one can only be used in WINXP Pro and Vista Permium and the higher. You can restrict the access of all the programs or executable files in USB pendrive through this policy.

When you want to access the executable files  you are sure of no harm, you can turn off the restriction. This is a wonderful way to protect your pen drive from viruses.

2. Force Folder

Use the “Force Folder” feature in Sandboxie. This feature will make all the program / executable files in the folder you have chosen to run in Sandbox. For example, the drive of your USB pendrive in your computer is F:. Then you can set F: as force folder, and all the programs in F drive will be run in Sandbox. To know more about Sandboxie, please pay them a visit.

[Source: greatskills.blogspot.com]