How to protect your Usb drive from viruses

Hi friends, these day all of us are suffering from many type of viruses.Some of them are coming from internet,Some come from Windows and some come from USB drives.If you want to protect your USB drive didn't get infected,then here is a way for you.You can avoid this by making your usb drive write-protected, thereby preventing viruses from writing malicious codes into your usb.The following steps will help you in making your usb drive write protected. Here it is:-

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Quick steps :-

1. Insert your usb drive into the computer.

2. Goto Start >> All Programs >> Accessories >> Run and then type diskpart.

3. Now type list disk in the command line which would display all the available storage devices in your PC.

4. Note the disk number for your usb drive and type select disk x where “x” is the usb disk number.

5. Type the following command as it is without the quotes.

“attributes disk set readonly”

6. Once given the above command and hitting enter, your usb drive is made read only i.e write protected. You will be able to read files from your usb drive but cannot write anything into it. This way your usb drive is protected from viruses.

7. Now if you want to revert the settings back to normal, type “attributes disk clear readonly” by selecting the same disk in diskpart. That is it!

Note:- This tutorial only help you to protect your usb drives from virus.I will advice you to make your Pc properly safe you should use any Trusted Antivirus.