Comments on: Thumbscrew Makes Your USB Drive Read-Only http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/06/thumbscrew_makes_your_usb_drive_readonly-2/ tips and downloads to help you at work and play Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:14:13 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Codelion http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/06/thumbscrew_makes_your_usb_drive_readonly-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3631 Codelion Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:52:54 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/06/11/thumbscrew_makes_your_usb_drive_readonly-2.html#comment-3631 <p>This is not a reliable way to protect your USB key from virus infection since it relies on a Windows registry hack. Malware can easily defeat software based write protection. The only way to ensure that you can be safe from getting a virus on your USB key is to buy a USB hardware write blocker.</p> This is not a reliable way to protect your USB key from virus infection since it relies on a Windows registry hack. Malware can easily defeat software based write protection. The only way to ensure that you can be safe from getting a virus on your USB key is to buy a USB hardware write blocker.

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