Majority of the virus problem which we receive from the readers are those cases which infect the system through pen drives. According to our records about 40 percent of the total computer systems got virus or trojan infection through pen drives and USB portable devices like iPOd, Mp3 players etc.

Yesterday, I found a cool utility called Thumbscrew : USB Write Blocker , you can use this utility to disable writing to your USB drive. You can read full review about the utility here

Let’s see how can you use this utility to protect your drive from viruses

Fix:

Thumbscrew is small handy utility which you can take any where on your pen drive use it to protect your pen drive from viruses on other computer systems by disabling Writing on that system. You can download thumbscrew here.

Follow the procedure below to protect your pen drive from viruses

1. In order to protect your pen drive from viruses you need to create a blank file named autorun.inf through notepad and place it in the root directory.

2. When you insert pen drive on any virus infected computer system it will throw a message that some thing is trying to copy and replace a file located in the root directory of your USB device and that is nothing but a virus.

So don’t allow the virus to replace the file on your drive.

3. Open your pen drive and double click the thumbscrew.exe to start it , it will get loaded into your system tray.

Select the option as shown in the images below

Disable USB Writing ( as shown in the image below)

Enable USB Writing ( as shown in the image below )

Caution:

Make sure to enable USB writing before you remove your pen drive from the computer as this small utility plays with the registry which affects the computer not your pen drive on which you have inserted your pen drive.

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We have been receiving lots of mails from our readers that their system got infected by different types of viruses.

Normally most of the viruses which infect any windows XP system causes the following problems:

1. Task Manager disabled – So, you cannot end the process related to the virus.

2. regedit command is disabled – Registry editing is disabled.

3. msconfig command is also disabled – This command is disabled by most of the viruses so that using msconfig you cannot remove virus from start up, if it is their.

4. Folder options becomes hidden and doesn’t appear from windows.

Above given are some of the most common problems caused by most of the viruses.

Lets see how we can revert the windows settings to remove these restrictions.

Fix:

It really very simple to remove all the restrictions that are mentioned above with the help of remove restrictions tool.

RRT?

RRT (Remove Restrictions Tool) is a tiny tool that does the work for anti-virus softwares, it re-enables all what the virus had disabled, and brings every thing including task manager ,regedit ,msconfig and hidden folder options and also removes lots of other restrictions imposed by various types of viruses.

You can download RRT from this link .

NOTE: Always keep your anti-virus software updated with latest virus definitions to avoid virus related problems. Scan any external drive you attach to your computer and all the downloaded content for viruses.

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Are you among those who are not able to access or see your folder options under File Menu>>Tools in Windows Explorer on your Windows XP ? This problem of hidden or disabled folder options occur normally due to malicious virus (w32.rontokbro@mm) activity.

The virus creates an entry in registry to disable “Folder Options” in Windows explorer.

Let us see how we can fix it.

Fix:

In most of the cases, even if the virus is been already removed by your anti-virus program, it doesn’t restore the registry back to the original state. Also anti-virus usually does not delete the registry entry created by the virus.

For restoring the registry settings,follow the steps given below

Enable your folder options in explorer.

1. Go to Start > RUN

2. Type regedit and press enter.

3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies > Explorer

4. On the right side of the screen, you can see some registry entry names, out of them, right-click on NoFolderOptions and click Modify option.

5.A new small screen pops up, on this screen, sen the value data field as 0 (zero).Press OK.

That’s it but it requires reboot. Trouble Fixed.

If you don’t want to play with the registry yourself ,you can also download the registry file and double click it to add it to the registry.

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