OZO
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join:2003-01-17
| reply to EGeezer
Re: Disabling 'Autorun' on USB and beyond. Need help.
Yes, it's important to distinguish Autoplay from Autorun.
Autoplay is the way of starting (default) application from your computer based on the type of content in attached drive. You may keep Auptoplay always 'on' without ill effects.
Autorun - on the other side - is very dangerous and actually is an automatic way to be infected by potential malware. It's because by allowing Autorun you allow automatic execution of an application resided on the new attached media (e.g. USB drive).
To block Autorun from unexpected execution of potential malware you may want to change this registry value:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:B1
Unfortunately even with this setting (and due to current implementation of this feature by m$) there still be risks of running a malware. Read this my post explaining my point with some details.
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