Disable Autorun file - Protect your computer from USB

Most of the computer seems to get transferred from USB drives and other portable and removable media like external Harddisk or Memory card. As soon as you plug and play your removable storage media, the windows’ default feature will search for Autorun.inf file which contains all the information about the things to do when media is plugged in.

It can execute programs (probably virus) which are already in removable storage media. Eventually the programs copies itself to the hard drive.

Therefore it is necessary to turn of autorun feature in your windows to get rid of viruses.


Here is the quick solution to prevent your system. you just need to disable autorun feature of windows..

Follow this step by step to disable autorun feature.

Go to Start Menu and Select Run

Type gpedit.msc and press OK

you will see group policy editor window.

In the explorer sidebar at the left,
open Computer configuration ..
then Administrative templates..
now inside System folder.

At the right side, scroll down for the Turn off Autoplay.
Double click to open it.
Click on Enabled button
choose All Drives
and then OK

Same steps you need to do in user configuration.

open Computer configuration ..
then Administrative templates..
now inside System folder.

At the right side, scroll down for the Turn off Autoplay.
Double click to open it.
Click on Enabled button
choose All Drives
and then OK

Restart you machine..

Now your system won't autorun any file from external media.

Good Luck :-)