Disable USB Pen Drive / Disabel Mass Storage to Prevent Data Theft and Protect from External Worm-Virus Infection

Disable USB Pen Drive / Disabel Mass Storage to Prevent Data Theft and Protect from External Worm-Virus Infection

This is very important to protect your PC from External virus - worm infection to your system as well as theft of data from usb mass storage from common system. To do this you can simply SYSTEM BIOS and disable your USB device, But in this solution you are unable to connect any hardware on usb port.

To Disable only mass storage or pen drive go to

Start-------->Run-------> Regedit

on regedit

1. Navigate to the following registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor
2. In the right pane, double click on the Start value name.
3. Change the value data to 4 to disable the removable USB mass storage device drive access.



4. Change the value data to 3 to Enable the removable USB mass storage device drive access.

You can create a reg file to for you. Copy below text and open in a notepad then save as with extension .reg

-------Below Start to Disable USB--------------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR]
"Start"=dword:00000004

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----Start Enable Usb Drive--------------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR]
"Start"=dword:00000003

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