Best Practices to use Pen Drives & Memory Cards

We mostly face virus problem while using pen drives & memory cards. As they are spread the virus most we avoid using it many times.
Here is the few best practices to protect your system free from virus & protect data corruption due to virus

1. Disable AutoPlay
   When we plug-in any removable drive like pen drive it autoplay's due to which virus program in it gets executed damaging the system. So best thing is to disable autoplay. For this Click Start Click Run Enter GPEDIT.MSC
   On left panel Double-click Computer Configuration Double-click Administrative Templates Double-click System Double-click Turn autoplay off
   (The default is the Not configured).
   Set it to Enabled and choose 'All drives' as opposed to just CD drives.
2. Don't Create Folder in Pen or removable drives
   Second thing is not to create folder in pen drives or memory cards as virus mostly gets hidden inside it and it multiplies as many as folders are there normally your folder appears with exe extension and data gets corrupted with viral instructions in it making it to spread. So loose your important data.
3. Zip your folder before copying
   Instead of copying the folder using winrar zip your folder (in rar format, if winrar is installed on the system right click the folder [your folder name].rar appears in the menu select it) then you copy it to pend drive.
   Making zip has three advantages i.e.
   1. Folder size gets reduced and so takes less space on pen drive
   2. Copying data to pen drive becomes 10 times faster
   3. Data will not be corrupted in 90% cases even virus is in pen drive
4. Scan Pen drives before use
   Before you use your pen drive do not forget to scan it, but remember if virus found your data may be lost
5. Don't double click on pen or removable drive
   Do not double click open pen or removable drives as it executes the virus program if it has, so avoid it instead right click select explore or select pen or removable drive from address bar in my computer.

Hope you find this useful

Thanks & Regards
Raju Jetla