Configure system group policy in Windows to reject USB flash drive virus (1)

USB flash drives attract many users to purchase and use with their convenience. This provides another carrier for the spread of Network viruses, nowadays, many viruses in the Internet are spread by using USB flash drives. After being infected with the USB flash drive virus, the computer system may not run normally. In severe cases, the computer may be paralyzed. To prevent your computer from being infected with the USB flash drive virus, We Can skillfully modify the system's group policy parameters to reject the illegal spread of the USB flash drive virus.

Disable automatic playback of a USB flash drive

Most of the time, a USB flash drive device is inserted into a computer system, and Windows automatically opens the USB flash drive window to help us quickly browse the resources. The automatic opening of the USB flash drive window is likely to be activated by a network virus. As a result, if we accidentally Insert the USB flash drive device, the computer system will immediately be infected with a network virus; to prevent the USB flash drive from being infected, we must try to prevent the computer system from automatically playing the USB flash drive. To do this, we can follow the steps below:

First, click "start"/"run" command in the desktop of the local computer system. In the displayed system run text box, enter the string command "gpedit. msc, click OK to open the Group Policy console window for the corresponding system;

In the left-side area of the console window, click "Local Computer Policy", "Computer Configuration", "management template", and "system" branch options one by one, in the display area on the right of the corresponding "system" branch option, find the "Disable automatic playback" option, right-click the option, and execute the "attribute" command from the shortcut menu that appears, open the attribute settings window shown in 1;

 

Figure 1 disable automatic disk playback

Select the "enabled" option, select the "All Drives" project from the "Disable automatic playback" drop-down list, and click "OK, after the USB flash drive device is inserted into the local computer system, it will not be automatically played, so the USB flash drive virus will not be able to automatically attack, unless we open the USB flash drive window, the local computer will be infected with a network virus. Although this method isolates the USB flash drive completely, it will affect the automatic playback function of the disc.