Autorun.inf- How to Secure from It with Panda USB Vaccine
admin | Feb 04, 2010 | Comments 0
Autorun.inf virus is by far the most common infection found and spread via removable drives such as USB Flash drive or Pen Drive. What is Autorun.inf? It is actually a configuration file located in the root directory of removable media as reference to associated program which executed automatically.
For example when you inserted a Video CD/DVD into PC and your Windows Media Player auto load and play this content.
As what was use to be a useful features, has taken advantage by malware to spread virus infection once a external USB drive is connected to PC. The malware succeed in copying malicious executable in the drive and modifying the autorun.inf file so that Windows opens the malicious file silently as soon as the drive is mounted.
How can we protect and secure from this annoying threat?
Panda USB Vaccine is a free software designed to prevent malware infections due to the autorun feature in Windows. There are basically two components in achieving the autorun vaccination:-
- It allows users to vaccinate their computers by permanently disabling this feature so that no device can ever auto execute any malware infection, offering a high degree of protection from your removable drives and devices.
- It also protect removable USB devices (Pen Drive/USB stick/Flash Drive..etc), preventing the autorun file from becoming a source of infection. The tool will disables this file so it cannot be read, modified or replaced by any malicious code.
Please be inform that using Panda USB Vaccine to vaccinate USB Drive is non reversible operation and might cause some applications to stop working. However, if in any case you do not have an autorun.inf file in your USB drive it’s completely safe to vaccinate it.
Download Free Panda USB Vaccine here
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