How to disable autorun and autoplay to protect USB flash drive from virus

Gone are the days when viruses came only through internet. Today if you don’t have trusted anti-virus solution for your Windows machine then you can’t even think of accessing your friend’s USB drive. 4 out of 10 cases the USB Flash drive will be infected by some or other virus.

There are variety of Windows viruses that I’ve seen. Some viruses will copy themselves on to a folder. When you copy them to your PC and run the infected executable file, the virus will actually show its symptoms.

There are another kind of viruses which will automatically run as soon as you insert your USB drive to your Windows Desktop/Laptop. These viruses have higher chances to make your system slow down in performance and can cause much more threat.

Easy solution for the latter type of viruses is that you should disable autorun and autoplay feature on your Windows machine. Autorun actually started when Windows XP came but it’s not easy for a non-techie user to fiddle with the registry settings to disable it.

We’ve made the job simple for you. You can download this easy registry fix (autooff.zip) and run the .reg file inside. It’ll disable the autorun and autoplay feature in your Windows XP and Vista and make sure that you are not infected from such kind of viruses that automatically runs and exploit your laptop computer. Prevention is better than cure!