USB disks often used by us to transfer data from the computer. At the same time, it is possible to transmit virus from the computer, and then to other computers via this USB disk. When you connect the USB disk with computer, the virus will try to hidden in the USB disk automatically so that they can infected the next computer. Depending on the virus type, it can cause different result on your USB disk and the computer. Sometimes, it will delete or hidden your files on the USB disk and computer, or corrupt the files, copy files to eat the memory space, etc. Therefore, it’s very important to protect your USB disk and computer from virus infection when you connect it to computer.
How to protect your USB disk from virus infection?
Enable write protection
If you do not need to write transfer data between the USB disk and the computer, you can write protect the USB disk to avoid virus infection. When the USB disk is in write protection, you cannot add any new data to it. So if the virus want to transfer data to the USB disk, they also will fail for the USB disk is in write protection.
On the SD card and USB flash drive, there is a write protect switch on the body so that you can write protect them. If there is no switch or the write protection switch is damaged. There are many free USB write protector on the Internet, you can select one to write protect your USB disk when connect to computer.
To prevent the virus carried by USB stick to attack computer, you should enable the antivirus software on the computer to scan it automatically every time the USB stick is detected by computer. Use the antivirus software to scan the entire hard drive so that there is no virus install on the USB devices.
In case the USB stick or computer hard drive is virus infected, or there have data loss or corruption on them, you should adopt a data recovery software to retrieve them as soon as possible.Before you can restore the virus deleted files, you need to run the data recovery software to scan the device first. After the virus have been removed, you can start to retrieve all your lost data.
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