If you have got a PC / Laptop, you are bound to carry USB drives (storage device, flash drive). Why not give these little guys some style? May be you want to carry USB drive masked as a cheese burger or any other toy so that nobody in the office can spot it as a USB drive. Here are few smart ideas to disguise your USB drive.
AutoRun Maker simplifies the process of creating autorun CD/DVD discs and USB drives. It supports all major functions supported in 'autorun.inf' file. You can change your USB stick's icon or make an autorun DVD or create entries in portable media's context menu without having to write the 'autorun.inf' manully.
USB Personalizer is a small tool that allows you to customize pendrives (USB drive, USB stick), ipods, and cellphones. You can select background and icon for each folder in your USB, it also lets you manage the files in your USB device.
Those who have megabytes of sensitive files on the USB drive and seriously concerned with a data security, cannot imagine their USB stick without the hidden or secured volume. For those folks this softwar is really a treasure. You can password protect your personal data and can access your secret volume by entering a right password back again. Rohos Mini Drive creates hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. You work with the files on the hidden partition without opening a special program.
After USB Write Protect here is yet another little program which will make your USB or disk drives read only. Best way to protect your USB from being infected. Thumbscrew is USB write blocker. When used it allows you to quickly enable or disable writing to all USB mass storage devices on your Windows system. You can use it to make a USB flash drive, hard drive or IDE/ SATA drive in an enclosure read only. If you want to play around with making forensic images of thumb drives and other USB mass storage devices it may come in handy. You will see one of two icons in your system tray to indicate whether or not USB mass storage devices are set to be read only.
USB is the major source of propagation of viruses and malwares now a days. When a USB is plugged in to a system, it tries to open up immediately and malwares or viruses present in PC make their way into USB. This way malwares spread quickly and easily. In this case to protect your computer by opening USB drive to propagate malware/viruses automatically into it, you can use this software to enable or disable write protection for USB. When the write protection is enabled no virus of any file can be copied automatically or intentionally into your USB drive. You can choose to decide what to do after you plug in your USB drive. You can copy its contents into the system, but can not copy anything form PC to USB drive
Most virus infection comes while using USB with computer. USB device is used to carry data through PC and office or from market to PC. Public places where we can use computers such as internet clubs, offices, markets where there is local network area is enabled are considered to have potential virus carriers where USB/Flash drive can easily get infected and later on can cause data loss/virus/malware/adware infection in your home PC. Be careful enough while using USB drive while outside to avoid virus infection. There is a way to be safe from even infected USB while using it.
Data injection drive. Picture is saying it all.
USB stopped working? It got detected by Windows and the driver got installed smoothly but when you tried to open it, it said that I should insert a disc into the drive.
