There are a lot of ways through which virus or spyware can enter into your computer. It could be browsing the Internet and go to the wrong web site or you can download a file you thought was one thing and it really is another. One of the least common ways for a computer to get infected is from an external device, such as a flash drive, external drive or other external media. NoAutorun helps prevent immediate infection upon inserting a USB or flash drive into your computer. When you will run this tool for first time, you will get Config window :
No autorun is a great tool, in which there are so many options is available of how it works, such as auto starting it, how it minimizes to tray and even lock certain files names that might be suspicious from the get go.
Under the Security header, you want to ensure that “Scan all disks at start” to prevent any USB drive from auto-running software that may harm your system. This means you can manually start up software or browse files at your leisure.
The main screen of No Autorun allows you to see what files, folders and executables have been locked as soon as you scan an external drive.
From there, you can choose to delete Autorun files that are causing issues or quarantine them. You can also unlock files No Autorun automatically locked on your behalf, because it thought it was a threat.
No Autorun also allows you to utilize USB Disk Soft Write Protect. This protects your drive from being auto-written if something is on your system to begin with and wants to use your flash drive to infect others. You can enable or disable this at any time by clicking “USB Disk Soft Write Protect” and clicking either Enable or Disable.
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