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Darkdata Ruins!? ♥ Level: 103      Posts: 2169/2892 EXP: 11446342 For next: 25064 Since: 07-04-07 Since last post: 202 days Last activity: 10 days
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Goodbye Autorun, we hated you more than Clippy.
Originally posted by The Reg/microsoft  ____________________ |
paulguy Green Birdo Level: 93  Posts: 1274/2294 EXP: 8032572 For next: 20238 Since: 09-14-07 From: Buffalo, NY Since last post: 9.7 years Last activity: 9.7 years
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Paulguy's Post configuration Still there for CDs and DVDs. Probably would be hard to get them to default to removing it on those, since they'll get pressure from some DRM providers who rely on it to sneakily throw their garbage on people's systems.
There is a pretty reasonable threat from those, too. People could easily roll their own autorun-enabled disc and either intentionally have a virus on it, or the auto-ran executable could have a virus attached to it by an existing virus infection on the system. But yknow, corporate interests over the safety of billions of users. ____________________ |
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Darkdata Ruins!? ♥ Level: 103  Posts: 2170/2892 EXP: 11446342 For next: 25064 Since: 07-04-07 Since last post: 202 days Last activity: 10 days
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Lyskar 12210     -The Chaos within trumps the Chaos without- Level: 192  Posts: 8236/12211 EXP: 99323632 For next: 549939 Since: 07-03-07 From: 52-2-88-7 Since last post: 7.4 years Last activity: 7.3 years
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Taryn Passed away. Thanks for being a part of us, even if it wasn't always on the best of terms. 1987-2014 Level: 204  Posts: 11896/14742 EXP: 121749460 For next: 1600358 Since: 09-01-09 From: Seattle Since last post: 10.1 years Last activity: 9.8 years
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Rachel Mae Creature of Chaos Level: 141  Posts: 3652/5929 EXP: 33604797 For next: 515217 Since: 07-03-07 Pronouns: she/her From: Foxglen Since last post: 21 days Last activity: 6 hours
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xdaniel 980  Level: 64  Posts: 140/982 EXP: 2153659 For next: 60438 Since: 12-04-08 Pronouns: he/they From: Germany Since last post: 26 days Last activity: 2 hours
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>>ESTABLISHING LINK...DONE. >>FETCHING POST DATA...DONE. >>EXECUTING POSTDISP.BIN...
More or less every time I plug a USB stick into my system that isn't mine, the drive's Explorer window opens, AntiVir complains about an infected autorun.inf and I say, or at least think, something like "Man, again the autorun. Don't you have anti-virus software?". The last time was last Saturday evening. So I'm really glad for this update; less for my system here, but for those of my friends. ____________________ cu xdaniel Kagami - Desktop:
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dotUser From the Grave Level: 91  Posts: 159/2357 EXP: 7427851 For next: 41061 Since: 10-20-10 Pronouns: she/her From: a particularly peculiar tiny store's back shelf Since last post: 34 days Last activity: 6 days
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Aoi Member Level: 30  Posts: 120/181 EXP: 159818 For next: 6051 Since: 07-18-10 Since last post: 9.9 years Last activity: 9.9 years
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| Hrm. They'll (somewhat) admit Autorun has problems, but I'm still waiting for them to... say, turn "Hide extensions for known filetypes" OFF by default...
...among other things. (And why, for example, does it seem so easy for malware to write itself to %appdata% and run, without anything opposing it? Bleah.) |
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