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Secure Removable Drives
Quick Heal Total Security safeguards your USB devices from autorun malwares. Autorun feature of the removable drive is one of the
mediums for malwares to gain access into the system. The Secure Removable Drives feature prevents autorun malwares from
using your removable device as an infection spreading medium. Securing the removable drive also ensures that the drive, if
connected to an infected system, cannot be used for spreading autorun malwares on other system.
To safeguard removable drives please perform the following steps:
1. Click Tools -> Autorun Protection from the Quick Heal Total Security main window.
2. Click the Secure Removable Drives tab.
3. The removable drives plugged into your system will be listed in the Select a removable drive drop-down box. Select
the drive and click Secure Removable Drive button.
4. The drive will be secured against autorun malwares when used in other systems.
Figure 3-4: Secure Removable Drives
Although Quick Heal recommends that you keep the autorun feature of your USB drive disabled but if you wish to enable
the Autorun feature of the USB drive, just follow the steps mentioned earlier and in Step 2 click the Un-secure
Removable Drive button to enable autorun on your USB drive. Insert the same removable drive for un-secure that has
been secured using Quick Heal Total Security.