Hi, Yes, it is a great list, isn't it? Smile Joseph's suggestion about setting the read-only attributes on files and folders is certainly an excellent one, and it's one which I never thought of myself. ..I suppose I just trust myself to be thoughtful before being thoughtless. Grin
All the best, Rod -----Original Message----- From: John Czarnecki [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 8:45 AM To: Rod Hutton; [email protected] Subject: Re: special program.. thank'''s Thanks fore everyones sugjestions and ideas about my flash drive matter. I have been in to computers fore quite a few years at least from msdos 8 I think it was till windows 8.1 and I am not knolageable about it all but a switch on the shell of a flash drive? Ha You could have fooled little old me... Thankyou everybody I love this list. John Czarnecki. On 1/5/2015 8:18 AM, Rod Hutton wrote: > Hi John, > > Unless the flash drive has a switch on its shell, there is no way to protect > its contents from modification, that is, formatting or deleting of contents. > The only way to prevent data from being transferred to it, say, a virus, is > to fill it upp as much as possible. > Windows has a built-in command line utility to fill up empty space on a > removable drive. > If you need help with this, you can let me know. > That's about all you can do. Smile > > All the best, > > Rod > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Czarnecki [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 3:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: special program.. > > > Helo My name is John Czarnecki and I am looking fore a utility that > when used will cause the files on a flash drive to be undeleeteable and > the flash drive it's self to be unformatable I have music on a 16 gig. > flash drive and I don't want any of the files on the drive to be > tampered with. Also this utility must be able to be used by someone > who's todely blind. Please if you can send emale to > [email protected] or [email protected] or the list thank's > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
