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USB sticks are one of the main causes for virus infection in a computer system and they works as a medium for spreading virus/malware from one system to another. Therefore, it is very important to control the use of USB sticks on computers, no matter how good your antivirus and firewall are. The best method to control the use of infected USB drives is to block the computer USB port. It not only helps you prevent infection from viruses but it also helps you prevent theft of sensitive personal data from your computer. Windows USB Blocker is a simple tool designed to switch on and off USB port on computers. What is great with this tool is that it blocks only USB Storage devices like USB Sticks or Portable Disks, normal USB devices like wireless keyboard/mouse plugs, Bluetooth/wireless/internet dongles will continue to work without any problem. Windows USB Blocker is a freeware tool and no installation required. With just one click you can instantly Block or Unblock USB on your s...

There are a number of free tools that disables USB port of your PC, so you can prevent anybody copying data from your computer. In addition, as most USB malware uses a file called autorun.inf, which runs automatically when the USB drive is plugged into your PC, you can prevent such malware infection some extend by disabling USB port of your PC.

Want to compare read/write speed of two different USB flash drives? Depending on its make and model, its read/write speed varies. By knowing read/write speed of a USB flash drive, you will get an idea how much time it would take to complete a file transfer between your PC and USB flash drive. Here is a very simple benchmarking tool called HD Speed to measure data transfer rates (sustained/ burst) of USB drives, hard disks, Flash drives, and more.

Do you have the message “The device generic volume cannot be stopped right now” when trying to eject a USB drive? This is a common problem and to solve this issue you’ll have to close all the programs that are running from USB flash drive or else Windows will not allow it to remove because of the possible data corruption. With ProEject tool you can do all this with a single click and eject USB drives safely.

For several reasons, you may want to prevent inserting pen drives or any USB drive into your computer, for example to prevent copying content from your computer or to prevent execution of malware, which may come into the system through the USB drives. If you are looking for an easy solution for controlling access to removable drives, here is how you can do all that with Wenovo USB Disks Access Manager for Windows.

WinUSB Maker is a portable, freeware tool that helps you make any USB Device as bootable with Windows Setup. It is quite easy to use and compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2008 (32bit/64bit). With this tool, you can make bootable USB drive from Windows Setup DVD, Setup Folder or ISO Image file.

There are several tools available for protecting USB flash drives against the annoying auto run viruses . Protect My Disk is a freeware tool that uses an advanced protection method to protect USB drives from common USB viruses, so you can plug-in your USB drive on any computer without worry.

Dev Eject is a simple to use USB device manger for Windows that provides some useful functions to control your removable media. It lists all connected devices, provides option to safely eject a device, quick access to a device, and provides list of files opened from the drive and shows which process has them open.

Some malware can hide full capacity of your USB flash drive. For example, a 4GB pen drive sometimes shows only 500kb or less. An interesting part of this situation is that, even after removing the malware or formatting the USB flash drive, you will not get back its original capacity. Therefore, the question here is how to restore a USB flash drive to its full capacity.

You might have come across such a situation that your folders or files stored on your USB Flash drive vanished without your knowledge. This is because, certain malware can hide all folders and files in a USB Flash drive.

BitDefender USB immunizer is a small tool that allows you to immunize your USB storage device or SD card against infections with autorun-based malware. It also lets you disable (and or enable) autorun feature of your computer to prevent infection via USB drives that has not been immunized.

As its name implies USB Disabler lets you disable and or enable the access of USB port of a computer with a click. The main benefits of this tool are you can prevent unauthorized use of USB drives and prevent virus infection via USB flash drives.

Bootable USB Drive Creator Tool is a tiny utility that lets you easily make a bootable USB drive with few clicks. A bootable USB drive is useful if you want to boot from devices other then the default hard disk. For example, you can use it to troubleshoot a virus infected PC or can be used to cure other critical computer related issues.

USB Dmmyprotect is a tiny utility that can protect your USB drive from virus infected computer. It is not an antivirus program; instead, it creates a dummy file which takes all free space on your USB drive and leaves no free space for virus to write into it. USB Dummyprotect is very simple to use. Download and copy the software into your USB drive. Execute the file from USB drive in a virus free environment. [at your computer for example] It will create a dummy.file and it takes all free space in your drive. Note: Of course it would not protect from everything, but help in most cases. Moreover, it useful only if you need to read files from your drive, if you need to write something to it you need free space on USB drive and viruses could use this space too. It wouldn’t work if there is more than 4GB free space on FAT drive. Download USB Dummyprotect at this link

Zentimo is a full-fledged USB device manager that lets you manage your USB devices and save data on them. This tool has many uses. For instance, you can assign drive letters to a specific device, hide drive letters of unused slots, stop or un-plug a device safely, and display locking processes, test write/read speed of a device and more. Main Features of Zentimo USB device manager Drive Letter Management: Hide drive letters of unused card reader slots, assign drive letters to a specific device, etc. Portable App Quick Launcher: Launch any application located on your USB drive with one click Powerful Autorun: Can automatically mount\dismount your TrueCrypt drive, launch a file manager, check flash drives for viruses, etc. Safe Device Removal: Stop a USB device, display locking processes, and reconnect a stopped device. Drive Speed Test: Perform read/write speed tests for any attached drive. The company is giving away free licenses to Zentimo v.1.0 for a limited time (Dec 1 – Dec 7, 2010...

Before creating a bootable USB disk or USB installer for your favorite Linux Ubuntu operating system or for your Windows 7, it is good to know whether your computer can boot from a USB drive or not. Though newest motherboards have USB boot support, here is a simple solution to check USB boot support for your PC. Download the free tool called USB Boot Tester (158Kb) into your computer. Connect a pen drive to your PC. Run the USB Boot Tester and follow the instruction. Now restart your PC and change the first boot device to USB or Removable Devices or External Devices (depending on BIOS versions) from the BIOS and save the settings. Restart your PC again. If nothing happened and your computer boots from the hard disk as usual, just switch the pen drive to another USB port and once again restart your PC. Still nothing happened, it means that your PC can’t boot from USB. In that case change the boot priority back to normal from the BIOS. But, if you get Memtest launch from the USB flash...

No Autorun is tiny tool that not only blocks autorun-related virus and other suspicious files entering into your computer, but it can also prevent viruses entering into your USB disk from your infected computer. After you run "No Autorun", the program waits for USB disk/flash insertion. Once you insert a USB disk, the program locks autorun.inf file and other related executable files. You can safely open or delete the files from the program. After you enabled write protect option, any newly connected USB disk will be read-only for your computer. It's useful when your PC is already infected but you don't want to spread the virus. No Autorun is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7 (32bit/64bit) and completely clean (according to Virus Total ), however check it with your antivirus program. Download No Autorun .

If you’re looking for a comprehensive tool to manage your hard disk and other storage devices, you may be interested in Drive-Thru. Drive-Thru is an easy to use, portable program that enables you to perform certain task such as enable/ disable write protect, hide/unhide drives, disable autorun, convert FAT to NTFS format, change drive letter and icon, etc. The easy to understand user interface lets anyone to make changes without any difficulty. Run Drive- Thru (no installation needed), it will display a window with 4 tabs. The first tab (Drive Security) lets you hide/unhide drives or disk partitions, lock/unlock drives and disable auto run. The second tab (Drive Substitution) lets you make changes to individual drives. The third tab (Drive Monitoring) lets you monitor a drive(s) or partition changes and the last tab (Other) lets you perform certain tasks like enable/ disable disk write protect, change drive letter, icon, etc. You can free download Drive-Thru here.

Making a USB bootable operating system is a good idea if you want to install an operating system in machines that has no optical drive, for example netbooks and ultra-portable laptops. Moreover, one of the main advantages of a bootable USB disk is, as it is faster than the optical drive, installing your OS requires less time, but, of course, your motherboard should have USB boot support. Here is a very simple solution to create a bootable USB drive for Windows 7 without any extra expense and DOS technique. The free application called Windows 7 SBB Tool lets you easily create USB bootable windows 7 setup in few steps. It is very simple to use if you have Windows 7 iso file, just extract the files in any location of your local disk and specify it to SSB Tool. You can choose any removable device (USB drive, SD Card, etc), if your motherboard has support for that. Download Windows 7 SBB Tool

Formatting a USB thumb drive or memory stick is not a big job. Anyone can simply do this by just right clicking on the USB drive and selecting a format option. Martik USB Disk Formatter makes this even simple. It is a small and portable utility for Windows that lets you format your USB drive into FAT 32 or NTFS file system. The main benefit of this utility is Windows XP users can now effortlessly format their USB drive into more secure NTFS format, if they like. Because, in Windows XP there is no straight way to format a USB drive into NTFS mode. Interested readers can download it free at source.