This marks the end of an era, at least as far as worms like Conficker are concerned. Historically, all a virus had to do was place a a very basic Autorun.inf file in the root of a removable drive, and it would be automatically executed upon its insertion. As you can imagine, this was a very, very easy attack vector, and incredibly effective too.
Incidentally, because Microsoft says it hasn't seen an in-the-wild malware attack that uses CDs or DVDs, AutoPlay will still work with "shiny media."
Microsoft removes Autorun from Windows Vista, XP, 2000 originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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