Pentagon Bans USB Drives Over Virus Threat

They haven’t gone so far as to glue-up the USB connectors on their PCs, but the Pentagon has temporarily banned removable media of any type. This includes flash memory drives, external hard drives, CDs, devices that can be used as removable media (like an iPod) and so on. Why? According to Wired, it’s a reaction to a worm, Agent.btz, which is spread whenever a new partition or USB drive is detected on the system. When an infected USB drive is attached to a different PC, it infects that one.

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Pentagon Bans USB Drives Over Virus Threat