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Windows update dents 'Autorun' malware prevalence

article published on 22 June, 2011

Update earlier this year halts surge of 'Autorun' malware family infections. Microsoft released an update on February 8 for the Windows XP and Windows Vista platforms. The update targeted the "AutoPlay" feature of the operating system that let an Autorun.Inf file in removal media dictate what to execute immediately upon insertion. The change would stop the Autorun feature from being ... [ read the full article ]

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KillerBug
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_ 		22. June 2011 @ 12:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Not simply doing whatever the disk tells it to? Brilliant! Here I get bugged about every single download before I run it, and windows defaults to run programs without my permission...typical Microsoft security.
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_ 		22. June 2011 @ 14:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yeah even tweakui in xp set to disable autorun didn't work even with sp3,bloody useless also note they knew about autorun virus in 2010 & yet only release a patch this year pathetic
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Mez
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_ 		22. June 2011 @ 16:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
My free virus scanner blocks all autoruns unless you tell it is OK. That rairly happens. Who would keep an auto run on a memory stick in the first place????

All hail M$. I am glad to see how smart they are.
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bobiroc
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_ 		22. June 2011 @ 21:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by KillerBug:
 Not simply doing whatever the disk tells it to? Brilliant! Here I get bugged about every single download before I run it, and windows defaults to run programs without my permission...typical Microsoft security.
Gee I don't have that problem. Maybe it is not Microsoft Security that is the problem?
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_ 		23. June 2011 @ 11:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by bobiroc:
Originally posted by KillerBug:
 Not simply doing whatever the disk tells it to? Brilliant! Here I get bugged about every single download before I run it, and windows defaults to run programs without my permission...typical Microsoft security.
Gee I don't have that problem. Maybe it is not Microsoft Security that is the problem?
I dont have that problem either.. usually most security problems are beteen the keyboard and the chair....
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_ 		23. June 2011 @ 13:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Mez:
 My free virus scanner blocks all autoruns unless you tell it is OK. That rairly happens. Who would keep an auto run on a memory stick in the first place????

All hail M$. I am glad to see how smart they are.
Techs do to test and install programs on PC's plus people that don't use optical media do as well to install programs. So it has its usefulness.

It may be a dangerous feature but it is useful one too and that is what security software is for to catch a program that is doing something it shouldn't be doing, not disabling Autoplay. I'm sure MS has just changed the Registry key for this which is easy to get around if so. If that is the case it will be no different than the horrible UAC which is worthless.

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