safety instructions while plugging a pendrive or a mobile phone to ur pc.

Here are a few safety instructions that if followed can prevent malware (virus worm and trogan) infection...

• 1)Do not allow any autorun programs to run from ur pendrive/mobile unless u put it there in the first place. U can use tweakui from microsoft to deactivate the autorun function from all drives except the cd rom

• 2)Always use "Windows explorer" and NOT "My computer" to open pendrive/mobile. If u use my computer clicking the folders button will give u the side tree view in both case only access the pendrive/mobile from the tree DO NOT DOUBLE CLICK THE DRIVE ICON.
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• type the drive letter in the address bar and press enter to browse the pendrive/mobile

• 4)Always scan ur pendrive/mobile with ur antivirus before opening it, and make sure ur antivirus has the latest virus definitions and that it is uptodate.

• 5)use a registry protection software. (u can use spy bot search and destroy..with its teatimer option enabled... though u may be annoyed when it asks for every registry change made to be allowed... but it will save u a lot of tension as it would as ur permission before any virus could make a registry change... u can swith off when u are installling a new software else it might bug u more than u ever want to and force u to disable the teatimer/reg protection... which is a bad idea.)

• 6) if u find a file called autorun.inf in ur pendrive delete it unless u put it there on purpose. autorun.inf is NOT a virus it is a file that tells windows which program to open whenu double click a drive icon.. if find it open it using notepad.exe and try to locate which program is supposed to open find it, if found suspicious delete it (most of the case it can be deleted safely)

• 7) if u double click a folder and nothing happens right click on it and check whether it is an application if so u r most probably infected by now by the brontok virus. use the guide lines given in this blog to clean ur system.

Well these are certain guidelines if u guyz feel that there are more please let me know by posting a comment i will update this topic as soon as possible.