How To Protect Your Desktop From Virus ByDisabling Autorun

Most of the computer seems to get transferred
from flash drives, pen drives and other portable
and removable media. As soon as you plug and
play your removable storage media, the windows’
default feature will search for Autorun.inf file
which contains all the information about the
things to do when media is plugged in.
It can execute programs (probably virus) which
are already in removable storage media.
Eventually the programs copies itself to the hard
drive.
Therefore it is necessary to turn of autorun
feature in your windows to get rid of viruses.
In this short tutorial I am going to teach you how
to disable your system from searching and
executing autorun.inf as soon as the removable
storage is plugged in.
Follow this simple step by step tutorial.
First go to Start> Run
Type: gpedit.msc in run window and press OK
button.
It will load the group policy editor window.
In the explorer sidebar at the left, open Computer
configuration tree. Inside it open Administrative
templates. Again open System folder. (refer to the
image below).
Click on the image to Enlarge
At the right side, scroll down for the “Turn off
Autoplay”.
Double click to open it.
Click on “Enabled” button and choose “all drives”.
And click on OK button.
Again in explorer sidebar at the left, open User
configuration tree. Inside it open Administrative
templates. Again open System folder. (refer to the
image below).
Click on the image to Enlarge
At the right side, scroll down for the “Turn off
Autoplay”.
Double click to open it. Apply the same settings
as above and click on OK button.
Restart you PC.
Now onwards, your removable media won’t
autoplay making your desktop more secure from
virus.