After loosing my USB drive for the first time, I'm now a lot more concerned about backing up my files. What I have in mind is for my USB drive to automatically copy its contents to a local hard ...

So BitDefender has released USB Immunizer to prevent the creation of autorun.inf files on USB storage devices and SD cards, and to toggle Windows' autorun feature on or off.

This AutoRun.inf is designed to run a copy of the age-old Paint program, a copy that resides on a USB flash drive. If your computer is well defended, it can’t run Paint.

After making the simple change described below the only way to get infected by an infected USB flash drive is to manually seek out and run the malware. You won't be tricked into running it.

You may have spotted the tell-tale Autorun.inf files in the root directory of your USB sticks and on CDs in the past. Autorun may sound like it’s great for functionality, but a large amount of malware ...