PREVENT PEN-DRIVE VIRUSES

Every system has invariably experienced the brunt of the viruses.With devices like Thumb/pen drives becoming popular,viruses are on rage.The more serious ones require good antivirus software and they will be detected and healed.The smaller ones such as orkut virus , sss.exe , ctfmon.exe are not recognized but still pester .Most of the viruses can be avoided as follows

Steps :

1) Goto Run ( Click start , click run )
2) Type gpedit.msc press enter
3) Expand User Configuration option located at your left
4) Click on System
5) Find an option at your right which says TURN OFF AUTOPLAY .Double click it.
6) Enable it and Turn Off Auto Display to All Drives
7) If group edit has already been disabled it means you dont have permission to modify it as you are not the administrator or you have already been affected with a virus .