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Panda Security just released a beta version of security sofware , which is developing to prevent computer not to get virus attack from USB devices  . Previously I was shared some USB antivirus for you. Those USB antivirus works by scanning, detected, then delete. But Panda USB Vaccine is totally different,  it’s work by disable the autorun feature from your computer, and also able to create a write protected autorun.inf dump file on your flash drive. So your computer won’t  get infect by USB devices, and your flash drive will be protected by the write-protected autorun.inf, and wont be able to overwrite by those viruses, you can’t even delete it.

Panda Research USB Vaccine  - 1.0.0.19 beta

Panda USB Vaccine is a free solution designed to protect against this threat. It offers a double layer of preventive protection, allowing users to disable the AutoRun feature on computers as well as on USB drives and other devices:Vaccine for computers: This is a ‘vaccine’ for computers to prevent any AutoRun file from running, regardless of whether the device (memory stick, CD, etc.) is infected or not.Vaccine for USB devices: This is a ‘vaccine’ for removable USB devices, preventing the AutoRun file from becoming a source of infection. The tool disables this file so it cannot be read, modified or replaced by malicious code.This is a very useful tool as there is no simple way of disabling the AutoRun feature in Windows. This provides users with a simple way of disabling this feature, offering a high degree of protection against infections from removable drives and devices.

Last day, i’ve received a desktop with a windows problem that windows disconnect his internet connection automatically by displaying this message,

“General Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. ”

from a customer.

Usually, as what technicians do , we will just ask him to let us reformat his computer. But i realized that it wasn’t just happened to him, but also to me sometime. I was experienced that “svchost.exe” error which made my all current connections disconnected and unable to control it unless I reboot my computer.

So.. I spended some times on the net to find out the solution. Finally I found that “Svchost” is stands for “Service Host“. Many of components of the windows system are implemented as what are called “services”, programs that run in the background, those services are stand-alone executables. Since DLL cannot run on its own, svchost is the one loads DLL.

Problem with svchost.exe nowadays is very common disguise used by malware to hide its presence from the user. As the task manager below does not show up much information in it. You wouldn’t even know which one is being controlled or used by malware.