Making Your Flash Disk Immune from Viruses

1. Create a folder in your flash disk, name it : autorun.inf

2. Go into the folder you’ve just made, then create a notepad document inside it by right clicking your mouse, choose NEW > TEXT DOCUMENT, and give it any name you like. The name you’ve given is going to be changed with some special characters.


3. Then, click START > ALL PROGRAMS > ACCESORIES > SYSTEM TOOLS > CHARACTER MAP.


4. After CHARACTER MAP is opened, choose font that contain unicode name, as Arial Unicode or Lucida Sans Unicode. Scroll down until you see Japanese, Korean, Chinese or other strange characters.

5. Choose 4 or 5 characters you like, then click copy.


6. Rename the text file you made in second step above by right clicking the file name, choose RENAME> [CTRL] + [V].



7. Finished…….

FAQ
Q: How can it be immune to viruses?
A: Windows will not accept 2 files under the same name. So, since file with autorun.inf name is exist in our flash disk, the viruses can not make a file with the same name.

Q: But if the file can not be used by the virus, the virus is still able to erase the file and create a new autorun.inf, isn’t it?
A: That is why we just made a text file with the strange name. The virus will assume it to be Windows character, instead of Unicode characters. The average viruses haven’t supported Unicode characters. Finally, our Flash disk will be safe and we don’t need to worry anymore.