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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 859762" data-attributes="member: 32260">Although the vulnerabilities similar to BadUSB can be very dangerous in businesses and organizations, they do not affect home users (so far). So, there is no need to apply any special protection. The most dangerous for home users are USB drives (flash drives) infected with something like malware in the hidden folder (archive, non-executable file, etc.) triggered by the shortcut. Another popular possibility is abusing the legal portable applications stored on flash drives (USB Thief). Both methods will require user intervention like running the shortcut or running the portable application.Another problem follows from the format of many flash drives (FAT 32). Such format does not preserve Alternative NTFS Streams (Mark Of The Web is skipped). The files without MOTW are ignored by SmartScreen AppRep on Windows 8+. Also, the users who have WD or Avast, are not protected by BAFS or CyberCapture features.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 859762, member: 32260"] Although the vulnerabilities similar to BadUSB can be very dangerous in businesses and organizations, they do not affect home users (so far). So, there is no need to apply any special protection. The most dangerous for home users are USB drives (flash drives) infected with something like malware in the hidden folder (archive, non-executable file, etc.) triggered by the shortcut. Another popular possibility is abusing the legal portable applications stored on flash drives (USB Thief). Both methods will require user intervention like running the shortcut or running the portable application. Another problem follows from the format of many flash drives (FAT 32). Such format does not preserve Alternative NTFS Streams (Mark Of The Web is skipped). The files without MOTW are ignored by SmartScreen AppRep on Windows 8+. Also, the users who have WD or Avast, are not protected by BAFS or CyberCapture features. [/QUOTE]

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