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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 22nd, 2008
  • Comments: 8

Autorun Eater

One common strategy to infect a computer is to use the autorun information of a removable drive, most likely an USB device, to infect the computer as soon as the user double-clicks the drive. If the computer is protected by antivirus software the attack will most likely be stopped in its tracks but the manipulated [...]

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Categories: Security, Windows

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 15th, 2008
  • Comments: 5

Autoplay Cleanup and Removal

When you right-click a CD, DVD or removable drive and select Properties from the menu you find a Autoplay tab there that displays applications for certain media that are put into the drive. An action like playing or opening can be selected or that the user will be prompted every time a media of that type is inserted.

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Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software

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