This article is about New windows vista tips for system admin to protect company confidential data stilling through USB device like Ipod and pen drive.As windows new operating system windows vista is also vulnerable to security point of view. With the help of USB device like I pod and pen drive many employee take confidential company data and licensed software for personal use. Some employees use USB device for spreading virus into the company networks.
So some smart admin disable USB port from bios setting and make bios password. Some newbie admins use tape to avoid inserting USB device into the computer. But by these approaches user can not able to use USB devices like mouse, keyboard etc.Here is <a href=”http://vista-basic.blogspot.com”> Windows Vista Tips </a> to handle such situations.
So the best way to avoid this is to disable writing access to USB port .Only allows read-only permission.
Open the Windows Registry with regedit at run
Expand registry to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-system – CurrentControlSet - Control - StorageDevicePolicies
Add a new DWORD = WriteProtect and value as 0 to disable write privileges to the USB port. And to enable write permission change value to 1.
This tricks works only with Windows XP SP2.
If you want to disable USB storage devices to attach with computers.
Open registry and and expand to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE – SYSTEM – CurrentControlSet – Services - UsbStor
In the right pane, give value 4 to start in the Value data box (Hexadecimal) and quite the registry editor. And if you want to enable USB in future give start value back to 3.
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