programs on your system, USB firewall is a small application, which
protects your from this.
How the computer gets infected via USB devices
The
whole mechanism goes like this, whenever a USB drive is inserted on the
USB port of your system, there might be several programs, which enter
your system without any notification, because they are the part of the
Autorun.inf on the USB drive, so as soon as inserted these unwanted
programs get activated and make your system a Victim, though antivirus
software installed on your system takes care of this, so why to use
this program, reason being, no antivirus is classified as perfect, the
efficiency of a traditional antivirus software is around 80%, moreover
this application provides you added protection, without hampering the
performance of your antivirus software.
How USB firewall protects you from infected USB drives
USB
firewall also has the capability to clean the Autorun.inf on your local
hard drives, remember the issue, when the double-clicking on the
partition on your HDD asks you to choose the program to perform this
action.
Once installed, it keeps an eye on every USB drive
inserted to your system, if any suspicious file, with intruding nature
is exposed to it, it renders the control to you and make a choice
between ‘Cancel’ and ‘Delete’, which either keeps the files intact or
remove them from USB, respectively.
Stay safe against infections via usb drives
However
after installation you can manually launch it to check such kind of
files already on your drive, by clicking on the ‘Clean All Partitions’.
This
added security can be easily enjoyed with a small download of 3.34 Mb
.rar file, and application is light on resources, sits silently in the
tray, until and unless a USB drive is detected, also, it doesn’t
require any updates. Give it a try and Share with us, how did it work
for you, do you find it useful? It works both on Windows XP and Vista.