Cyber Security on the Road – Protecting Your USB

Many travelers use their smart phone or laptop while they are on the road, but for most of us, there comes a point when we need to use a USB. USB is short for Universal Serial Bus, but most of us call them thumb drives. A USB lets you transfer documents from one computer to another or save documents or files from a computer you don’t take with you such as a home computer or even a computer in a cyber cafe.

What a lot of people don’t know, however, is that by using your USB in a cyber cafe, you are exposing yourself to viruses and malware that can infect every other machine your thumb drive comes in contact with.
To be specific, a USB is actually the port that the thumb drive plugs into. The drive itself is a small flash drive which can be in varying sizes from a few MB to 4 GB (big enough to hold films and plenty of photos or songs).

Obviously, you can’t run a virus scan on every machine you use your flash drive on, so the question comes up, how can you protect your drive when you go to a cyber cafe? …