How to Remove Virus from USB Device
USB Drives has become very popular as data storage and also as a backup device mainly because of it’s versatility, flexibility and size. But USB devices are very prone to virus infection and virus use your USB device to infect your computer. The common viruses are Autorun.inf, New Folder.exe, Ravmon. Unfortunately most antivirus fails to detect and remove these type of viruses. In most cases antiviruses are unable to delete them, only quarantine it. If your antivirus is unable to remove the virus from USB device here is the procedure to remove the pesky virus manually.
Whenever you plug a USB drive in your computer, a window will appear (if your autorun is enabled). Read more
Flash in the Can
Hard on the heels of Hitachi’s 5 terabyte hard drive (see below) comes more data storage news, this time the promise of cheaper and more reliable and longer lasting solid state drives (SSDs). Later this year Samsung are about to start production on 64 and 128Gb SSDs, with 256Gb drives in the pipeline later in the year. The Flash memory modules are mounted inside a metal case that’s the same size and can directly replace standard SATA II type hard drives in laptops, and since there are no moving parts they are not only faster than HDDS but they also out-perform and consume less power than rival first generation SSDs.
