Best Protection for Portable Device Virii

There are a couple of ways to protect your portable device — may it be a USB stick, an external disk drive, an SD card, the list goes on — but the best (AND simplest!) method I've been using for some years now is this:

1. Create a folder (NOTE: Folder) on the root directory of your device
2. Rename it to autorun.inf
3. Right-click the file -> Click Properties -> Set to Read-only and Hidden

Now you're good to go.

Well, actually you can add a bit more protection to that new folder by adding the "system file" flag to it. Here's how:

1. Open a command shell
2. Run "attrib +s +r +h

• Example: attrib +s +r +h d:\autorun.inf
• Example: attrib +s +r +h f:\autorun.inf

Can't be too safe these days. :D