Disable Writing to USB Drives

By Koushik Saha on 16.8.08

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Now-a-days a common security problemis being caused by the use of usb drive, I mean pendrive.The size being small it can be carried to any place and secretly data even corporate data can be stolen from the system computer. But now this thing can be checked. The way is to apply a simple hack in your computer registry that will disable the option of writing data in the flash drive. The procedure is as follows.Go to start -> click Run.. -> type "regedit" and press enter. Now try to locate the following path [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies] and then modify the following variable : “WriteProtect”=dword:00000001. And you are done.Please note do it at your own risk.The tips provider is not at all responsible for any malfunctioning of your computer

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