Create Dummy Folder and Protect Pen Drive from Viruses

Techno-geek, Tricks, Windows XP

The protection of pen drive from viruses,trojans etc. is a matter of utmost importance as they carry a lot of useful stuff in a small space. But if you are using your pen drive on public computers there are high chances that you can caught by viruses. So what will you do? Read this post for the best possible solution that I found while surfing on net.

Well the basic concept that why virus attack the pen drives is that they contain some amount of free space which makes the virus to attck and copy itself in the drive and harm the executable files. So we are going to use only this concept, that is, we will fill up all the space with a dummy file. To do this, you have to use a command known as fsutil. To know more about this command, click here.
                                       FOR WINDOWS XP USERS

  • Know the free space of your pen drive by right clicking–> properties.
  • The highlighted rectangle is your free space.
  • Then open the command prompt and write the following code

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    If you are following the above steps then you are bound to get an error message that administrator privilages are required.
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    <b> </b><br />To avoid this just run the command prompt as an administrator by right clicking it.
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