Many security experts recommend turning off the Autorun featureto stop a common malware tactic of infecting a removable drive,such as a USB drive, so that it will automatically attempt tospread ...

My first posting on the topic of Autorun/Autoplay, Test your defenses against malicious USB flash drives, described three ways that bad guys trick people into running malicious software that resides ...

One of the ways the Conficker worm and other, similar malware slimes its way from computer to computer is by taking advantage of the Autorun feature in Windows. If Conficker finds removable media ...

If you have created a program and want to let it autorun when someone inserts a USB/DVD/CD in their PC, then all you need to do is burn a small file with that program. In this post, we will explain ...

Never done it before, but what about something like SyncToy and an autorun script on the USB drive that starts a sync upon plugging it in? SyncToy has command line options and can search for the ...

As the inaugural article in our Security Utlity Spotlight column, I would like to introduce the Rem-VBSworm utility, which is used to clean USB and VBS AutoRun infections from a computer and USB ...

Thanks to OS design flaws like AutoRun, MP3 players (like the iPod) and USB drives can be used for more nefarious purposes than just carrying data out the door. A lot has been written about the threat ...