Why pen drives don't have write-protect notch?

Hi Venkataraman! I think almost most of us have experienced this problem. I used to have this kind of problem earlier whenever I go to a cyber cafe and use my pen drive for printing or any other purpose. What you can do is if you have internet connection at home then just upload document to be printed as an attachment in an email and then go to cyber cafe and access it to take print outs! To tackle this virus and trojans while using pen drive you can create an empty text document and name it as autorun.info in your pen drive. And if possible use Portable Apps and install Clamwin portable Antivirus which protects the pen drive. Just go to PortableApps site and read about it. As we know prevention is better than cure so we need to take precautions until we get inbuilt safety for pen drives as you have mentioned! Happy Mylotting!

Hi venkataraman, I too remember that technology in floppy disks.I think there are some pen rives which have the write protect notch,not too sure..We can ask pen drive companies to introduce this new system in the pen drives by writing to the customer care department.The cafe where i go scans my pen drive before inserting it into the computer for printing.I have to wait for some time till the scan is complete.I think it is possible to have write protect notch on pen drives.Only the company did not think of it before making them.

Hi venkataraman, you are right that was an wonderful technology in floppy disks.. I think those kind of facility to be given on Pen Drives as well.. I too got my pen drive infected when i used it in my colleagues Laptop and my anti virus Software detected it but failed to remove it thus I had to format my Laptop completely and reinstall every thing from begining and also I lost much of the data.. Nice topic.. Have a nice day..