eist! here are some instructions to prevent viruses from spreading by having your thumb drive (removable drive, flash drive or even ipods) from getting those autorun.inf file which triggers viruses from automatically running in your precious old school buggy windows!
1.) insert your thumb drive (of course) in your pc. 2.) browse the drive by opening explorer then pointing it to the drive letter of your thumb drive. 3.) create a folder called AUTORUN.INF (remember that windows will prevent you from creating this folder if a file or folder AUTORUN.INF already exist so therefore delete them first) 4.) then right click (not left) on the created folder and put some check marks on the hidden and read only. 5.) finally stand up and dance "tak tak mo" then thats it!
You can do this on all drives you have, not just your thumbdrives or ipods.. most viruses spread by dropping copies on all drives available in your system and with the AUTORUN.INF file they will be executed automatically.
So spread the word and be hereos of your generation...
by the way, maybe tomorrow virus writers will know this so they might be smart enough to tell their viruses to delete the folders we have created so... tough luck! hehehe
by the way, maybe tomorrow virus writers will know this so they might be smart enough to tell their viruses to delete the folders we have created so... tough luck! hehehe
But, if you marked the folder as read-only, they won't be able to delete it. Unless, there is still a workaround.
it is really advised to have the folder's attributes set at read-only and hidden as stated in step 4, however viruses normally have the ability to easily change attributes based from their own strategy of setting hidden and read-only attributes on themselves.
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by the way, maybe tomorrow virus writers will know this so they might be smart enough to tell their viruses to delete the folders we have created so... tough luck! hehehe 