There is another way that you can help prevent a virus from infecting your USB flash drive which is by filling up the empty space so that it will be full and there will be no space left for the virus to write itself to the drive. You could also buy a device which comes with a write-protect switch built in, and this is a good idea if you plan to buy a new stick that will spend a lot of time connected to other computers, but is obviously not an option for your current devices. There are various other methods to protect a USB drive from becoming infected by a virus, one of which is to enable an option in your Windows registry that can turn on a software write protect option to prevent anything being written to the drive while it’s attached to your computer. There are still many other types of threat that can get onto your flash drive though, and plugging it into a computer that is infected with a virus such as JambanMu or MaxTrox can infect a USB flash drive and bind itself to the executables. A common way to infect a USB device is through the Autorun function present in Windows although Microsoft took steps to eliminate this threat by default, so now a USB flash drive autorun.inf file shouldn’t launch when the drive is inserted. One of the most common ways to transfer a virus from one computer to another in more recent years has been through infecting files on a USB flash drive because of its portability and the ease at which threats can be passed between machines.
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