VanguardLH wrote:
BillW50 wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

I thought Microsoft had issued a security update that disabled autorun
on removable media because it is such an obvious security breach. So
it's odd that inserting a disc still has autorun.inf getting read (and
its specified executable loaded) or of any media handler get loaded.
I don't know about the security patch, since I disabled all autoplay
years ago anyway. But DVD movies don't use autorun.inf at any rate. So
maybe this isn't effected by the patch?

Did that, too, by using TweakUI to disable both AutoPlay and AutoRun.
Some users like the convenience so much that they remain blind to the
security breach after explaining it to them. AutoRun is definitely bad.
AutoPlay, at least, intervenes with a prompt where the *user* must make
a choice (but that user won't know for sure what is the real program
that is loaded upon an autoplay selection from the popup window).

As you look at TweakUI, Microsoft's KB articles, and their registry
settings, there is confusion over which relates to autorun and which are
for autoplay - because Microsoft mixes up the terminology.

Microsoft sure *loves* to confuse everybody. I often try to figure out
the logic behind this. And the only thing I ever came up with is job
security. The only other thing is that it makes it a nightmare to
reverse engineer. LOL

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Bill
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