The USB flash drive is the most convenient data storage or as a backup device because it is very handy and easy to carry around. It is very useful in transferring personal data from one station to another. However there is no doubt that this is also the main carrier of virus into our system unit.

Tips to Prevent Viruses from Infecting our Flash Drive

1. Common sense. Being careful in using the flash disk is the best thing to consider in avoiding virus problem. Do not use the flash disk or any external hard disk in infected PC.

2. Always scan the USB before using it. Scanning the flash disk is one of the basic security procedure in avoiding viruses. But scanning the flash drive without updating your anti virus is useless. Every year many of viruses are created to harm the functioning of our PCs. If we miss to update our anti-virus we are no longer protected from this kind of viruses.

3. Avoid using the flash disk in some public computers. School computers and computers in internet cafe are more prone of being infected from any kind of malware and viruses. Infected PC can automatically infects any flash drive that's plugged into it. To avoid this problem, use your email or online file transfer services in transferring any files from schools into your own computers.

4.Create an autorun.inf folder in the root directory of your USB. Creating a folder with this name will prevent the virus in infecting our flash drive. The virus could not replace folder so this could be a great help to prevent autorun virus. Autorun virus can hide some viruses so this must be prevented to infect our USB or pen drive.