Most of the worms, now in these days put autorun.inf file in pendrive for infection. Then put autorun.inf and worm file to pendrive. When ever you open thumb drive autorun feature in windows automatically execute that virus file and your computer get infected. They make both of them (usually) hidden so that the user cant see them.
See in the picture-
To disable this autorun feature so that your computer, at least , should not get infected from your pendrive make a reg file.
Procedure:-
- Open notepad and put this code
- Then save it as DisPenDrv.reg
- Double click it and merge the settings.
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REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
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