Portable USB flash drives are becoming the latest method to infect a company computer with a virus.
According to Trend Micro there has been a dramatic increase in the number of computers infected with viruses via portable USB flash drives.

The viruses spread through people borrowing or sharing infected data storage devices using such drives.
It said that companies should check their UBD drives and clean off any viruses they find.

The most harm was caused by a Trojan called Mal Otorun1 which infected storeage devices and then sniffed in the network to find any flash drives that were connected to. install itself.

Mal Otorun1 distribution increased dramatically over several months because companies were not expecting USB drives to be the method of distribution, Trend said.

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