A Simple Immune Method to USB-Disk Viruses

This is the outline of a little presentation.

Introduction to the USB-Disk Viruses

1. Understand the USB-Disk viruses
   

   USB-Disk viruses are a kind of viruses attached to USB removable disk like that of floppy disk very popular in 1990s. The virus from an infected computer is reproduced itself into the USB disk. When you plug this disk into a clean computer, the virus gets a chance to reside in the system, waiting for a new victim, while you are in complete ignorance of all this happened.
   

2. How they propagate
   

   By default, Windows system enables an Auto Play function. When you plug in a USB disk or CD, Windows loads and executes a file named AutoRun.ini, which is the list of predefined tasks. The virus reproduces itself into the disk and modifies this file, so that when the file is executed, the virus is able to reside into the system.
   

3. How they damage your computer system
   

   Nowadays the virus is not that simple as just propagating itself, whose only consequence is to lower the performance of the system. Today, almost every virus has its own mission embedded with spy wares and backdoors, which makes you in dangerous, for example, stealing your data files, ID information, and password of your bank account. Your computer probably becomes a zombie, from which hackers attack other victims.
   
   

An Immune Method to the USB-Disk Viruses

1. Open a command prompt by click Start -> Run. Input cmd and hit the return key.
2. In the command prompt, create a directory in the root directory of the USB drive with command:
   mkdir AutoRun.ini
3. Move into this new directory with command:
   cd AutoRun.ini
4. Create a new directory with command:
   mkdir a...//
5. Exit the command prompt window with command:
   exit
6. Remove the USB-Disk from the computer

Conclusion

1. A simple method without extensive computer knowledge
2. Immunity to the current known USB-Disk viruses and unknown ones in the future
3. Applicable to other removable storage devices such as digital cameras and MP3 players