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- jba68, on 05/29/2009, -2/+83Automatical?
- DirtyVicar, on 05/31/2009, -1/+33How about a tip for preventing the SATA drive from running automatically, too. Not even the boot sector. Electricity isn't an automatic entitlement to start running *****... I'll tell that bitch when it can execute, until then it needs to keep its skank hands out of 0x7C00.
- doctechnical, on 05/30/2009, -4/+32autorun.inf is one of Microsoft's stupider ideas - perhaps behind "Let's make an email client that will run random code from complete strangers!"
"Default Permit" is probably the greatest sin in computer security.
Download TweakUI, disable "autorun" on EVERY drive, A through Z. It's one of the first things I do after installing Windows on a machine. Dumb, dumb, dumb. - spencen66, on 05/31/2009, -1/+18I automatical was confused
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 05/31/2009, -0/+17in 1994 it was a great idea. In 2004 it was a crisis.
Having CD installers automatically run is convenient. But these days security is a big issue. There should be some confirmation before running. - InorganicMatter, on 05/31/2009, -3/+17There is, it's called "UAC," but everyone in the tech circle has this fascination with disabling it.
- inactive, on 05/31/2009, -1/+15just turn autorun off. its annoying anyways.
i stuck that cd in there to copy it not run it :D - twiztidsinz, on 05/31/2009, -4/+16After being on Windows 7 since the Beta..... XP just looks so ugly.
- doshindude, on 05/31/2009, -0/+11It's not an XP thing. that confirmation box shows up in XP too, you have to disable it for it to not show up.
- Bobby1978, on 05/31/2009, -0/+8You have to disable it, else demons run loose.
- latropa, on 05/31/2009, -2/+9This must be an XP thing. In Vista, even with AutoPlay enabled, it always pops up a dialog confirmation box with multiple options (Run the program, explore the files, copy disc, etc.)
- Freezingmoose, on 05/31/2009, -0/+7It think it used to say automatically, but there were too many characters. I HOPE so, anyway, for HotterDigg's sake.
- inactive, on 05/31/2009, -1/+8Do you know of any other way to see what's on the USB drive? Mind reading maybe?
- CanceledCzech, on 05/31/2009, -0/+7Smash it with a hammer?
- akchrs, on 05/31/2009, -1/+7Everytime I find a USB drive I immediately plug it in to see what's on it. I can't help it.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 05/31/2009, -0/+6The whole point is that the first time you get access to the thumb drive, the virus is already there. You plug it in and become infected.
What you're suggesting it then at that point trying to add a folder... too late.
The best thing to do is to not run as administrator. - blastcube, on 05/31/2009, -16/+21Don't run Windows
- maz2331, on 05/31/2009, -1/+6The drive doesn't run anything, but the machine that it is plugged into does.
- detcade, on 05/31/2009, -0/+5But Apple requires you to buy a whole new computer... easier to just make a new partition and run Ubuntu on it. No viruses, autorun, viola
- inactive, on 05/31/2009, -0/+5they know it was stupid. Thats why win7 doesn't have autorun.inf support in Removable dries. Only optical drives support it.
- Thorpe, on 05/31/2009, -0/+4Technological
- Gloony, on 05/31/2009, -1/+5Pfffft - I like unprotected OS interfacing, I'll yank out the key if it looks like it's going to execute.
Using UAC just isn't the same. - obeythefist, on 05/31/2009, -1/+5haha... I really hope your link isn't meant to defend the use of the word "automatical"
- santixx, on 05/31/2009, -1/+5You can always create a directory named autorun.inf so that virus and that kind of crap can't write an autorun.inf file in your drive. That until the authors of malware notice and start implementing workarounds.
- mesoiam, on 05/31/2009, -0/+3You completely the last two letters.
- BinaryFragger, on 05/31/2009, -3/+6Do your Macs prevent proper use of apostrophes and capital letters?
- obeythefist, on 05/31/2009, -0/+3It's scientifical!
- cJw314, on 05/31/2009, -0/+3Hell, Sandra Bullock infected a computer without even inserting the disk in A: completely!
- marciot, on 05/31/2009, -0/+3It should be "automagical," as in "this whachamacallit has the automagical ability to make all things right"
- hazello, on 05/31/2009, -0/+3A USB drive has a mind?
- smacksaw, on 05/31/2009, -2/+5After using OS X and KDE, everything else just looks so ugly.
- anthropodeus, on 05/31/2009, -0/+2Hack it. With an axe.
- inactive, on 05/31/2009, -0/+2I cannot believe that website is asking us to download a file from Russia !!!
One of the first downloads is a file from Russia. The land of botnets . - theaceoffire, on 06/01/2009, -0/+2@InorganicMatter
You are trying to defend "UAC", allow or deny? - roazena, on 05/31/2009, -0/+2Which is awesome until you take into account U3-compliant USB sticks whose firmware register themselves as optical drives on any OS.
- kentifer, on 05/31/2009, -0/+2How about not downloading mp3s that are 100 kilobytes in frostwire.
- diggcensors, on 05/31/2009, -0/+2its science
- smacksaw, on 05/31/2009, -1/+3In all fairness, those workarounds are far more complicated than Linux or a Mac. Because, you know...Windows is always easier and better, right?
- MWeather, on 05/31/2009, -0/+2What do you expect? If you want to stop using windows, first you have to click the Start button.
- mrBitch, on 05/31/2009, -0/+2It looks like the apostrophe in don't was stolen by his Mac.
- DiscoLando, on 05/31/2009, -0/+2http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?automat ...
- JohnnySoftware, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1It was always a terrible idea.
It has been getting abused for years too.
It was intrinsically stupid.
So many of Microsoft's major security bugs are because of a glaring desire to make things "convenient" for programmers or users - or just "cool looking" so some silly feature can be hyped.
How about the DESKTOP.INI file and all that? There is another work of genius, especially given how many severe security flaws Microsoft added to Mosaic browser after they licensed its source code and renamed it IE. - nodebtnow, on 08/28/2009, -0/+1A good article.
- LeoSaraceni, on 07/24/2009, -0/+1Thanks for the detailed instructions, they really make it easy to follow. But the usb drive I use only triggers window to ask me what I want to do, like "open folder to view files", and that is not installing any program.
But I guess if you keep this configuration you could prevent installing anything harmful if you use other people's usbs all the time. - inactive, on 05/31/2009, -0/+1U3 needs a very specific level of formatting to do that and U3 can only be created by Sandisk. If you uninstall U3 from Flash drive its very difficult to get it back to the way it was as a dual drive. So its safe to say that a virus can exploit it as easily.
- mrBitch, on 05/31/2009, -0/+1I love how straight-forward the actual wording is in the Windows dialog screens... FTA :
" ... go down to the entry - Turn off Autoplay and double click on it.
Select the Enabled radio button... "
So to turn OFF the Autoplay, you have to ENABLE it ?
(I know that this actually means "enable the 'turn-off-autoplay' feature", but it's STILL very poorly proofed english). - SifuMoKung, on 05/31/2009, -0/+1I once bought a used 8gb thumbdrive. It had "Flags of Our Fathers", "The Illusionist", "Babel", "The Last King of Scotland" and "Blood Diamond" on it. At the time, the movies were not released on dvd, and some of them had a caption at the bottom of the screen noting that the film was the property of the studio that made the film. Score!
On a separate and irrelevant note, I was sadly excited that the thumbdrive in this article's picture is the same one I use for my useless "Mac on a Stick".
I live a sad and lonely life. - ultrafez, on 05/31/2009, -0/+1You fail at patenting. The idea is to patent something BEFORE you tell everyone.
- KAMiKAZOW, on 05/31/2009, -0/+1tmaromine also mentioned Linux, not only Mac OS X
- MWeather, on 05/31/2009, -0/+1The best thing to do is to not even mount the drive.
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