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Create Dummy Folder and Protect Pen Drive from Viruses

The protection of pen drive from viruses,trojans etc. is a matter of utmost importance as they carry a lot of useful stuff in a small space. But if you are using your pen drive on public computers there are high chances that you can caught by viruses. So what will you do? Read this post for the best possible solution that I found while surfing on net.

Well the basic concept that why virus attack the pen drives is that they contain some amount of free space which makes the virus to attck and copy itself in the drive and harm the executable files. So we are going to use only this concept, that is, we will fill up all the space with a dummy file. To do this, you have to use a command known as fsutil. To know more about this command, click here.
                                       FOR WINDOWS XP USERS

  • Know the free space of your pen drive by right clicking--> properties.
  • The highlighted rectangle is your free space.
  • Then open the command prompt and write the following code


    fsutil file createnew J:Dummy 1440182272.
    (NOTE: You must change the drive letter and space according to you)
  • The file will be created and you will see the following in the command prompt.







                                              FOR VISTA USERS

If you are following the above steps then you are bound to get an error message that administrator privilages are required.





To avoid this just run the command prompt as an administrator by right clicking it.
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  1. X.E.R.O25 April 2009 at 10:29

    don't you think we always have to delete the file when we have to copy something in the pen drive ? Its rather tedious.. :P why not to use demacracy and get a pendrive antivirus like Clamwin ? I use my pendrive in this fashion and seldom get any viruses..

    XERO

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  2. X.E.R.O26 April 2009 at 15:59

    Well i thought I shall link to Democrakey so that readers shall get a more insightful view of how they can protect their pendrive and usb flash drive based portable devices from cranked up viruses
    http://rdhacker.blogspot.com/2009/04/protect-your-pendrive-and-surfing-using.html

    Gudluck friends

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  3. Anonymous16 August 2009 at 12:00

    USB ZeroSpaceAntiVirus 1.1
    Release on August 16, 2009

    USB ZeroSpaceAntiVirus creates a “block” file to fill up
    the remaining free space on the USB flash drive.

    When there is no space left on the removable drive,
    virus won’t be able to copy itself to drive
    or infect any executable files.

    USB.ZeroSpaceAntiVirus.v1.1.@PortableSoft.exe 36 KB

    Anti-Virus
    http://portablesoftware.4shared.com/
    http://www.4shared.com/file/125396333/cd0e6faa/USBZeroSpaceAntiVirusv11PortableSoft.html

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