USB protection on Mac

Do you just want to disable them totally? Or do you want selective control over them?

E.Krause wrote:

I want a selective control over them, but mainly protect my computer from malwares works from them.

Just don't run the malware that is on them. Or better yet, don't connect a device that has malware on it.

Just plugging in a device that has malware on it is not going to infect your Mac. You would have to actively install it.

I have never heard of anything that can "jump" from an external hard drive to your internal hard drive.

I have never heard of anything that can "jump" from an external hard drive to your internal hard drive.

You mean on OS X right? Because that does happen quite often elsewhere.

No.

No. There is no equivalent to the Windows "autorun" as such, so it's highly unlikely if not virtually impossible that any program, legitimate or malware, could run automatically solely on insertion of a USB flash drive. You would have to run an application yourself, so as long as you don't launch things you're not certain about, there should be no need to worry.

Regards.

Grant Greene wrote:

I have never heard of anything that can "jump" from an external hard drive to your internal hard drive.

You mean on OS X right? Because that does happen quite often elsewhere.

Well, since this is a Mac OS X forum, that's exactly what I mean.