Hi, Can I use antivirus softwares to protect my pendrive / fleshdrives from virus attacks?

especially when I plug them in an unprotected or infected computer. Of course one can always make sure to scan them with antivirus softwares after using them in infected computer, but can an antivirus protection be installed within the drive, if yes then how

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The above answer is rubbish.

Hi, Can I use antivirus softwares to protect my pendrive / fleshdrives from virus attacks?microsoft office

The 1st answer, garbage. The 2nd, well, that applies to running applications, not protecting the contents from getting infected with a virus. It is the operating system which runs the application AFTER the drive is loaded and recognized, so even if a program runs immediately from the jump drive, it is still too late as the operating system and/or virus gets at the drive contents before the application starts. The virus protection comes from the operating system, not the hardware (except in the case of cmos/bios) in most cases. A flash drive hooked to a USB port is just another piece of hardware which requires some sort of driver installed in the operating system to deal with it as a logical device, a disk drive. There is one way which might work for you. SD memory cards have a physical write protect switch. I have a USB adapter which uses SD memory cards and I tried it just now, flipped the switch and sure enough, no writes allowed. Otherwise my little USB/SD memory card adapter works just like any other jump or flash drive hooked to a USB port. The ways to protect your data is to write protect the jump drive like a SD memory card does, rely on the computer owner having an uninfected machine running adequate virus protection, or lastly, take your chances.