Sunday, 29 January 2012

Turn off autorun.inf for USB media


Nowadays most virus enter through USB by utilizing autorun.inf so its better to turn it off,
 that way no virus can enter the system that way.

To permanently turn off autorun for USB media

 Steps:-

open start->run->regedit
 go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer.
 Right click on “NoDriveTypeAutoRun” and select “modify” click Hexadecimal if not selected and write 95 in the text box (default it is 91) and click on OK. 
 exit regedit and restart machine.

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