USB

USB Flash Drive in Windows

Microsoft Windows operating system implements a USB flash drive as a USB Mass Storage Device, and use the device drivers usbstor.sys. Because it features Windows has an auto-mounting, and a USB flash drive is a plug and play device, Windows will try to run it as much as possible the moment the device is plugged into the USB socket. Windows XP and later even has the Autoplay feature, which allows the flash drive is accessed as a whole to determine what the contents of a USB flash drive.

Lately, many local computer viruses as well as Brontok / RontokBro, PendekarBlank, and other local viruses using a USB flash drive as a medium of transmission of the virus from one host to another host, replace the diskette. These viruses are mostly run on top of Windows will be more quickly circulated when it teserbut use Windows to access the drive autoplay feature which is owned by Windows. Therefore, it is better to disable the autoplay feature, although this is less so helps prevent the spread of the virus.

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