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USB Security Hole Fix For

USB pen drives have become a source of some concern for many people and system administrators in particular.

There is virtually nothing to stop someone with one of these devices from using it to copy or steal data from PCs at home or in offices, commercial premises, schools and colleges.

In point of fact the problem was addressed in Windows XP Service Pack 2, which includes a new Registry key that stops data being copied to USB memory devices by classifying them as Read‐Only media

Registry

Go to :‐

Start > Run In the box type without the quotes “ Regedit “

Scroll to :‐

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\Control

In the Right hand pane ensure that there is an entry :‐

StorageDevicePolicies subkey shown if not you will need to create one by right‐clicking into the right‐hand pane

Select New > Key

Right click on the new key and Rename it.

Double click the key to select it and from the Edit menu

Select New > DWORD Value and give the new value the name :‐

WriteProtect,

press Enter then double‐click the new value and set it to 1.

Exit Regedit and reboot.

To revert back to open access change the value to 0 or delete the key