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How to Protect your USB Flash Drives from Virus. (NTFS Drive Protection)

USB Flash Drives help us to transfer files from computers. It makes our work easier but If the USB flash drive is infected with virus, not only we may lose the data in the storage, we are also affecting the security of every computer once it’s plugged in. NTFS Drive Protection can help us to Protect our Removable Drives and even if our storage device has been plugged into an infected computer, the virus will be unable to create its “autorun.inf” on USB flash drive.

Enable protection:
Important ! To use the "NTFS Drive Protection" your Removable Drive's Files system must be formatted as NTFS.
  1. Run NTFS Drive Protection and select your drive (under the Target Drive)
  2. If you want to create a unprotected File, tick the "Create a Unprotected Folder" checkbox and write the Folder's name.
  3. Click the Start Protection Button and Wait for End. That's it!

After Start the protection, you can use the Removable Drive's files and folders but you can not change them or you can not create a new File or Folder. If you create a Unprotected folder you can easily add a file or folder in it, but a virus infection is also possible.

After The process is complete, the above message box will be displayed.

Stop protection:
  1. Run NTFS Drive Protection and select your drive (under the Target Drive)
  2. Click the Stop Protection Button and Wait for End, That's it!
After the process completed, The above message box will be displayed. Now your Removable Drive is Unprotected and status indicator (right side of the process bar) shows you a white unlocked key on a Red background.

Watch this video:

http://youtu.be/TwYtEO2c2hQ