Flash Drive Vaccine

A flash drive vaccine against classic shortcut viruses. 'Coz prevention is always better than cure.

Author	Raymel Francisco

Overview

Using your pendrive especially on unsecured systems poses risk in getting the classic shortcut virus — the culprit on hiding your precious files and folders embedded on your pendrive's root.

These are commonly resolved using attrib command, but there's a saying,

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

as most of us know.

Prevention of infection is simple in four steps,

1. Cleaning and making the drive eligible by formatting it to NTFS
2. Injecting fake (thus safe) shortcut virus files on drive's root directory

   As how vaccines (for humans) inject dead/less harmful viruses to provide immunity

3. Making the root directory unwritable

   Preventing file/folder corruption as what shortcut viruses (on computers) do on a flashdrive's root directory files/folders

4. Preventing modification on those fake viruses through NTFS Permissions

GOO-ee Design

Since it targets legacy shortcut viruses, I themed it back to good old Visual Basic 6 days.

Releases

Releases are set to rollout in the next few days. Stay tuned!

Built With

Current Version

• C/C++ with Visual Studio 2015

Earlier Versions

• Batch
• Visual Basic Script
• AutoIt

License

This project is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 (LGPL-3.0).