Pen Drives – Boon or Bane

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OK, so it sounds like a really cheesy topic for a debate or something, but I decided that irritating my readers was fun!

Let me explain, I think that anyone who reads this blog (or actually, anyone who has a PC :-P ), owns a pen drive/thumb drive/USB drive/whateva… Point is that, we shouldn’t be so plug-happy with these devices. I mean, what makes them different from CDs is the fact that you can’t just copy stuff to a CD, if it’s been ‘sealed’ (meaning that you can only read data, not write onto it). So, the problem with pen drives is that any malware installed on the computer into which you plug it, can quite sneakily plant itself onto the pen drive, only to go home and infect your own PC, when you plug it in.

Most people who are computer-literate enough to be reading my blog, will wonder why I’m writing this post. Well thing is, smart alec, that everyone ain’t a smart alec like you. So let the I-Googled-this-page-out guys read.

Also, let me remind you that each PC you plug the thing into, before it reaches your PC, also gets infected. And if you have Norton Anti(?)-Virus installed, you can pretty much forget about ever living virus-free. Let me relive a point in the past just before Code Wars 2007, when Ankur used to stick every pen drive in circulation into a Linux PC, and clean it out!

So, be kinda choosy where you stick em’ in, OK?

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