Panda USB Vaccine Review

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Panda USB Vaccine - Antimalware and Vaccine for USB devices

Panda USB Vaccine - free antimalware to block malware spreading through USB drives.

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There is an increasing amount of malware which, like the dangerous Conficker worm, spreads via removable devices and drives such as memory sticks, MP3 players, digital cameras, etc. To do this, these malicious codes modify the AutoRun file on these devices.

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using this for long time, not much problem yet.....
bitdefender also has this type of software named USB immunizer

http://labs.bitdefender.com/projects/usb-immunizer/overview/
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and most of them are useless in Win7/Win8 since autorun are disabled by default :D
 
Umbra Corp. said:
and most of them are useless in Win7/Win8 since autorun are disabled by default :D

Yes Microsoft disabled USB autoruns by default on all OS after XP.
Unless the user does a lot of manual tweaking to enable autoruns on USB, autorun malware will not function.

Autoruns on Windows XP can be manually disabled so these kind of problems are even useless on Windows XP.

Thanks.:D
 
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