Defending against malicious CDs and USB flash drives

Posted by henke54 on Jul 6, 2011 11:55 AM EDT
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In a follow-up to the Bloomberg story, Lifehacker suggested opening suspect hardware in a virtual machine. There are better, simpler options.

The safest approach is to use Linux, as so little malware targets it.

Windows users are best served with a copy of Linux on a USB flash drive. Just yesterday I ran Mint version 10 off a USB flash drive to delete files in the Windows recycle bin, files that Windows itself would not display, but were there nonetheless.

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