Tricks to prevent data theft via USB pen drives................!!

Well, Friends as you can remember that in my previous post dated 21 March 2010 under the label "Computer tricks and tips", i had described to disable Mass storage device i.e Pen drive, MMC, external hard disk etc. Disabling the USB port for Mass storage device completely may be annoying for you sometimes.....!!As it don't detect any Mass storage device at all in your system, so even if you have brought some data from somewhere, you can't copy it without changing value in the registry again...isn't it??


So, Today i am here with one Solution.......! By making this little bit change in Registry, you will able to keep your data safe from un-authorised access. By following the below tweaks, any Thief will be able to use pen drive in your computer, but he will not able to transfer data from Computer to pen drive, but can transfer the data from pen drive to Computer.....Cool naa? That's Write protect mode......ok


Here is the step by step process to accomplish your task :-

1. Start the Registry editor with 'Start/Run then type 'regedit' in box and click on 'ok'.
2. Open the 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Systems \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ StorageDevicePolicies' key in the tree structure of the editor.
3. If this doesn't exist, Create it with right click on the left pane and select 'New' and then 'key'. Rename it with 'StorageDevicePolicies'.
4. Double click on it. Now in the right pane, create a DWORD by right clicking on blank area, Select 'New' and then click on 'DWORD' from the context menu.
5. Rename it with 'Writeprotect'. Now double click on it and set its value to '1'. Click on 'OK' button and exit the Registry editor by clicking on 'File' menu bar option and then 'exit'.

Finally, Restart the Computer to activate the Write Protection function. Now Nobody will able to steal your personal data from your computer with pen drive. Are you happy now?


Note:- This action can be performed by user with 'Administrator' account only. Later on if you want to allow date to be copied to a USB drive in the future again, change the value of the 'WriteProtect' key in the registry editor to '0'.




It's not Finish now dear.....You must write your comments, if you find this post useful for you....Thanks !