RE: Disabling USB mass storage
From: Kurt Dillard (kurtdill_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 03/04/05
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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:44:32 -0800 To: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa@pacbell.net>, "Moser, Scott" <scott.moser@smead.com>
Susan is absolutely right, don't get too excited about that reg hack, it
only impact's Microsoft's USB driver. If the device is not USB, or if it
uses a different driver that setting will have no effect.
Regards,
Kurt Dillard,
Program Manager, Microsoft Solutions for Security
-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
[mailto:sbradcpa@pacbell.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:29 PM
To: Moser, Scott
Cc: Martin a Marika TYDOROVCI; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Disabling USB mass storage
...for devices using Microsoft drivers... if they load their own.....how
about that superglue that was recommended?
Moser, Scott wrote:
>Create new key
>HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies and then
>create REG_DWORD called WriteProtect and set to 1. This will prevent
>write only (not read) in XP SP2 only.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin a Marika TYDOROVCI [mailto:tydy@szm.sk]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:10 PM
>To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
>Subject: Disabling USB mass storage
>
>Hi list,
>
>Does anyone knows a way to disable USB mass storage device in Win XP? I
>need to disable using devices such as USB flash drive, card readers,
>etc.
>
>Regards
>
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