How To Write Protect Your USB Flash Drive

USB Write Protector

The main cause of viruses these days are USB flash drives. Viruses are now capabale enough to copy itself to whatever flash drive is attached into the infected computer’s USB drive. You can write protecyour USB drive by using this small portable tool.

USB WriteProtector is a portable freewarethat lets you lock your flash drives for write protection so that viruses or other unwanted things don’t get copied to your flash drive themselves.

After you enable write protection, you will not be able to write or delete any files from your flash drive and your data remains safe from being misused by viruses.

Compatibility

This 186 KB is compatible with Windows XP and Vista, and supports nice languages: English, Hungarian, Italy, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Spanish.

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Download USB WriteProtector

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Author: Haris Nadeem
He is the founder of Sizzled Core and a Pakistani blogger who loves gadgets and exploring out the web!

12 Comments

Madhur Kapoor

With a lot of virus now being spread through USB, it is a must have application.

Jul 19th, 2008
abhishek

great application will be really helpful…I will test it and if it is really good, will review it under virus tools on troublefixers.com…will give u a link back..great find :)

Jul 21st, 2008
Haris

@Abhishek:
Thanks a lot buddy! :D

Jul 21st, 2008
MOin

nice share haris thanks

Jul 22nd, 2008
zakota

hey buddy uncle thnx for sharing and keep on going :

Jul 23rd, 2008
Rudi

This is useless. I need to writeprotect the usb so that I dont get viruses on other computers. Why do I want it only writeprotected on my machine?

Sep 1st, 2008
Papos

This tool do not works in Windows Vista… only works with Windows XP SP2

Oct 4th, 2008
True

yeah this is dunce. it only tweaks the registry of the pc. but if u insert your pendrive on other pc its also vulnerable to viruses. naaaaa not this one pal.

Nov 4th, 2008
Svia

Anybody did for vista…. Anybody know the regedit tweak for vista….

Dec 12th, 2008
Andy

I can try this:

penprotectorenglish.wordpress.com

It is not free.

Jan 24th, 2009