Panda USB Vaccine currently only works on FAT & FAT32 USB drives. The drive can otherwise be used normally and files (even malware) copied to/from it, but they will be prevented from opening automatically. Once applied it effectivelly disables Windows from automatically executing any malicious file that might be stored in that particular USB drive. When applied on a USB drive, the vaccine permanently blocks an innocuous AUTORUN.INF file, preventing it from being read, created, deleted or modified. The free Panda USB Vaccine can be used on individual USB drives to disable its AUTORUN.INF file in order to prevent malware infections from spreading automatically. See this MS article is you like the manual way better. It can be used with ANY antivirus you have.
It will take less time than the other solution. Update everything to the latest patches/hotfixes. Quick solution: backup your files, format everything and reinstall. if I was the one to deal with the problem. The right solution is, as others have suggested, to contact the IT department who administers the lab machines and get them to remove the spyware/malware on their machines and install proper antivirus software on the lab machines. However, understand that this is a crummy stopgap and not to be recommended, because it does nothing to prevent the files on your pendrive getting infected, and because it is still pretty dangerous to carry around an infected pendrive (you are potentially infecting anyone else's machine who you stick the pendrive into and anti-virus is not perfect and may miss some viruses). Good antivirus software will typically scan the entire pendrive when you insert it onto your computer, or when you access files on the pendrive. You can install antivirus software on your own computer, so that if you plug the USB pendrive into your own computer, your own computer won't be infected by the virus on the pendrive. You can't protect the USB pendrive by installing software on it. If the lab's machines are infected, there's not really anything you can do to protect yourself.
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