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Re: 100% protection against any threats vis USB drive! really?!
Why would you pay money for something that Microsoft's free TweakUI for XP or Vista natively can do; or the user on other Windows OS versions can do with a simple registry edit?
If you want to flip Autorun capability on and off, write a batch file.
This software only disables Autorun. That is a very, very small part of the issue of USB devices and security. What will happen when you disable Autorun is that the user will use Explorer to open the device to see its contents. This software appears to do nothing about:
• An infected device that had been previously used on the computer. (The MountPoints2 entry will still be there to execute the malware);
• Any non-Autorun.inf infector on the device.
It does not help matters either that the screen shots given look exactly like most SmitFraud infections. I am not suggesting this is one, I have no idea. Just that it looks like one. With exaggerated claims of 100% protection, and a huge GUI signifying nothing. The tool cannot remove Autorun infections. The only thing it does is to make registry edits to disable Autorun, and that is a singlularly easy -- and free -- thing a user can do themselves.
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