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Offline polonus

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Disable write access to your USB stick...
« on: October 15, 2009, 09:26:09 PM »
Hi malware fighters,

Tool to disable write access to your pen-drive/usb stick:
http://www.veign.com/downloads/reg_hacks/disableusb.zip

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Re: Disable write access to your USB stick...
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2009, 09:30:32 PM »
hello sir,

one which you previously suggested : http://www.m2cfg.com/usb_writeblock.htm

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Re: Disable write access to your USB stick...
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2009, 09:32:33 PM »
Hi nmb,

So you have to choice of two,

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Re: Disable write access to your USB stick...
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2009, 09:33:58 PM »
I'm rather worried about the actions started in USB and written in my hdd.
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Re: Disable write access to your USB stick...
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2009, 09:36:40 PM »
@ tech

well, the usb write disable would be very much helpful for sys admins.

@ sir pol

yes sir. I will stick with your previous one. it works great. thank you

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Re: Disable write access to your USB stick...
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2009, 09:57:08 PM »
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Re: Disable write access to your USB stick...
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2009, 10:02:21 PM »
Hi Pondus,

That's the way, thanks for the link, we will have a great repository here of useful tools,

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Re: Disable write access to your USB stick...
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2009, 10:09:09 PM »
delete, thanks  ;)
« Last Edit: October 15, 2009, 10:22:40 PM by Logos »
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Re: Disable write access to your USB stick...
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2009, 09:45:09 AM »
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