My removable media including external hard drives and MP3 players became infected with several malware including conflicker and AMVO. I have not been able to remove it. I purchase a write protected Kanguru flashdrive and a write protected SD card. Are portables functional when the write protection is on?
Are live bootable Linux ISO on flashdrives and SD cards functional when the write protection is on?
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ISOs are designed to be run from CDs, which are not writable, so if the same ISO is run from a non-writable USB drive it should run OK.
But an app may be designed to check for it's execution media and perform things differently if on a writable media verses a non-writable one.
Ed
Can you recommend any portable apps that function on write protected removable media?
if you have a mail client, then well it may be made to run write protected, but where do you put your mails , addresses etc during the operation?
So it will entirely depend on what you want do.
You can have firefox run from write protected media, but you may not expect whole functionality.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland