TechRepublic - Five Tips: Five tips for avoiding removable media malware

With the growth of widespread network-delivered malware infections, we tend to forget that sometimes the old methods are still effective. Find out what you can do to protect yourself from the hands-on threat of removable media malware.

September 27th, 2010
By Chad Perrin

In the 1990s, people who used computers on a regular basis were much more cognizant of the potential danger of viruses that could move from computer to computer via removable media like floppy disks. But as this Washington Post article amply demonstrates, the threat has not gone away just because it is often easier to infect computers over the network instead In fact, if your organization is well protected from network threats, a determined attacker may take advantage of the relatively low level of protection used for other means of infection - like removable media.

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