Protect your USB

In today’s corporate world, copying and transferring files from one system to another have become common activities for computer users all around the world. These tasks are mainly performed by using USB flash drives so USB protection is also getting major concern. Since these devices are portable & small in size, they are widely used and can also be carried anywhere you move. One of the common examples among its kinds is "pen drive" which is extremely popular these days to store data as extended memory devices. This is the reason why its protection is mandatory so that your classified data and information stored in the USB drives cannot be accessed by other unauthorized hands.



USB flash drives such as pen drives are extremely convenient to store and carry your important data while you are travelling from one place to another location. Sometimes when you would want to print your working files from another source then you can always copy your required data & save it into your pen drive and plug it into the system from where you are going to get them printed. In the same way you can use your pen drive to carry data from your home computer to office computer.



In these processes, the potential risk for virus infection into your USB drives has increased due to the over exposure to multiple systems where your data and information are shared. USB flash drives are usually small in size, so they are prone to get lost and stolen. Therefore it is really important for you to protect your USB drives especially when you are storing highly classified data and sensitive information of your company or firms.



Due to the advancements of science and technology there are many alternatives and methods to secure a USB drives. The following are the two applications that you can consider:



1. The Pen Protector:



It is one of the most practical applications that can be used to make your drive write protected from viruses, malwares, Trojans etc. The application is considered to be user friendly and popularly used due to its Operating System compatibility.



How to use ‘The Pen Protector’:



* First of all you have to plug your USB flash drive into the USB port of your system.



* You can now copy the Pen Protector Application software onto your USB flash drive.



* You are required a Right-click on the Windows’s "Start" button to select the option "Explore".



* You have to find the USB flash drive section and double-click on it.



* You can run the Pen Protector executable file. Now a message will come up on the DOS window: "your flash drive is write-protected".



* When you want to disable write-protection on your flash drive, you have to re-run the executable Pen Protector application on the USB flash drive.



2. Thumb Screw:



There is another USB protection application that would keep your flash drive write-protected so that no virus or other malware could exist on it. Once you have run & installed this application on your system, you will find it very user friendly as well as operating system compatibility. You can also download this application from online absolutely free of cost.



There is much other application software available in the market these days like the above two mentioned applications which can easily protect your flash drives and make them read only. But the applications mentioned above are widely used because of their user friendly, operating system compatible properties.