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Protecting Live USB from Windows Viruses

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Ever since I started using linux, I said good bye to windows forever. I always carry live usb linux alongwith me (these days, I am trying LXLE for instance).

I use the same pen drive to copy data. Though, windows viruses do not affect the linux OS but when I connect the pen drive to windows OS they infect the other data files.

Is there anyway to protect the pen drive itself from windows viruses? I was thinking of creating two partitions:

ext4

fat32

the second partition can contain some sort of software using which I can transfer data to ext4 partition as I understand ext4 partitions are secure from windows viruses.

does this appear feasible?

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answered 3 Years ago quivedge · Accepted Answer

The solution you proposed is complex and not portable (Windows will need special extra drivers to read ext, and they are not stable).

There is no trouble, use the freeware Windows software Ninja Pendisk.

Ninja Pendisk is fully portable, self-contained, requires no installation and protects your Windows machine from any virus or malware trasmitted via USB:
(from the website)

besides removing known virulent files, this tool will also immunize
your pendisk and create a folder called autorun.inf with special
protection permissions to protect your pendisk from being infected
again when plugged on contaminated computers

I always used it and it's very handy!

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