Hack-X-Crypt A Straight Forward Guide Towards Ethical Hacking And Cyber Security (2015)

USB SECURITY

Securing Pen Drives From Malicious Viruses

Today, a giant downside for windows user is to secure their data from viruses. Especially, in Pen drives, nobody needs to keep their vital data in pen drives as a result of pen drives square measure transportable devices and through sharing data it may get infected by virus like shortcut virus, Autorun.inf , and new folder virus etc. Some folks recover their data by merely using Command prompt however some folks assume there’s solely possibility left and it is to format the pen drive.

So, if your pendrive is infected by any of those virus you can merely follow these step to induce your hidden data back.

Open CMD (command prompt)

Open Flash drive in CMD ( if your drive is ‘G’ than enter ‘G:’ after c:\user\ press [ENTER] )

Now type following command and hit enter:

attrib -s -h /s /d

Now open your pen drive in windows you may see all of your files . However wait ! is it enough ? No way! your pen drive is still not totally secure . Higher than command simply shows all of your files that square measure hidden by viruses. If you want to shield your USB from obtaining unwanted files i.e. virus, worm, spy, Trojan etc. then you need to follow these steps.

What I’m going to tell you is tha t a way to setup your registry to finish a computer from saving files to your USB. If you have windows seven or windows eight then you’ll immobilize the writing choice to USB drives. This trick is incredibly useful if you have virus in your laptop and want to repeat files from a USB Drive however also don’t want to transfer virus to the USB. Follow the given steps to disable the USB writing option:

Open notepad and replica and paste the following:

Windows registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlStorageD evicePolicies]

“WriteProtect”=dword:00000001
Now keep the file with the extension “.reg”.

Click on the file you now saved. within the pop-up window selected affirmative and then OK.

That’s it your USB is currently secure

TURNING THE SECURITY OFF

To just off this security measure
Open notepad and copy and paste the following:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlStorageD evicePolicies]

“WriteProtect”=dword:00000000

Now overlo oked the file with the extension “.reg”. Click on the file you currently saved. within the pop-up window click affirmative and then OK. That’s it your defense is currently disabled.