How to protect the stick from the recording

Remember, it was once quite popular stick with a mechanical write protection. This is such a button or a switch, clicking on which record information on a flash drive impossible. It applies it in order to protect against viruses and especially in demand by people who are contacted to work with a large number of computers, such as the system Administrator.

However, in recent years these devices produced less, and I honestly do not even remember when I saw them on the shelves. Judging by Google SERP this is a problem for many people, so today we'll show you a way to quickly and easily protect any usb drive write.

In this case, we will not open the device and to climb to a soldering iron, and use the software. This will help us a small tool USBDummyProtect.

All you need to do - it's a tiny download (4 kB) file and save it to a USB flash drive. After that, run it on removable media file is created dummy.file, which occupies all available space. Now, in some to the infected computer, you do not stuck in your USB flash drive, no virus there will not penetrate, because there is simply no space for recording.

To restore the free space, just run the utility again or manually delete the file created. Of course, when using the program assumes that you need to transfer files from a flash drive on a PC, but not vice versa.

As rightly observed by the author - "this is not an antivirus." So do not forget about the usual remedies, but what utility USBDummyProtect protect your flash drive from infection and the transmission of infection when in contact with potentially dangerous machinery.