Introduced to our world in the Decade of the 90s, USB is today connecting peripherals par excellence. Through her we carry our mobile devices, transfer information, and share content offline with our friends, something for which we need an external hard drive or a stick USB. This makes that, along with Internet downloads, USB is a potential virus and other malware entries on our computers.



Normally any antivirus suite will have a resident analysis which should be charged with monitoring any strange between that door, but fortunately there are specific applications that make guardian without having to require many system resources. In the past we have talked about Panda USB Vaccine, allowing us to vaccinate our devices, and USB Disk Manager, a more complex program that also sought to assure us a malware-free USB memory.

Today I speak of USB-AV, diminutive USB antivirus, and a resident utility that is in charge of analyzing our units as soon as we connect them via USB. In fact one of its virtues is that you don't need to configure anything if we do not want, simply perform the installation, and default USB-AV will scan all contents of the units.

If you find some dangerous content, the application automatically moves it to a quarantine folder, informing us of the affected files. For example, and as you know, one of the major dangers that we can find is that the USB stick has been infected and have an autorun.inf file, which is autoejecuta in previous versions of Windows and can even cause a virus from entering our computer. USB-AV automatically moves these files to the quarantine section.

This is in addition to a very lightweight utility that runs in the system tray, and from which we can access some advanced features, such as disabling writing to the USB drive, something ideal where we work with a unit loaded with important documents, or even disabling full of USB connections, preventing that nobody can puncture a USB and infecting our team.