It's too bad your Trend Micro page didn't give more information.
www.browserdefender.com reports the site as Safe.
But is it really a good idea to use this program?
- Does irongeek have a reputation for developing good, safe software?
- I can't tell from thumbscrew's description that it would be useful as polonus suggested: "for using a USB key to recover a virus infected machine without running as much of a risk of your drive getting infected."
- Do you really want to rely on a "poor man's USB write blocker"?
Thumbscrew is my attempt at a poor man's USB write blocker. When used it allows you to quickly enable or disable writing to all USB mass storage devices on your Windows system. In other words, you can use it to make a USB flash drive, hard drive or IDE / SATA drive in an enclosure read only. However, I make no guarantees as to its forensic validity. Still, if your poor and you want to play around with making forensic images of thumb drives and other USB mass storage devices it may come in handy.
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Thumbscrew has a few limitations:
1. I can't guarantee it's 100% forensically sound. Buy a proven USB hardware write blocker if you want to be sure.
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