Sunday, February 6, 2011

DO NOT let anyone just simply plug in their USB devices to your laptop

I have just read an article regarding the latest threat posed by USB devices to our laptops, PCs or even mobile phones. The researchers had found out that a type of hacking program (or malware) may now become undetectable through USB connectors attached to the PCs. The reason for the invisible is that very often this type of malware operates as normal USB hardware (such as mouse, keyboard or joystick attached to PCs) which is almost passable to most antivirus software.

So, the only prevention method is NEVER ever let any stranger just simply plug in any of their USB devices into your prestigious PCs.

More information is available at here (This is also the original website from where I read of the article).
It does no harm in spending some time reading over it

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