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Microsoft To Disable Autorun
jchrisos writes "Microsoft is planning to disable autorun in the next Release Candidate of Windows 7 and future updates to Windows XP and Vista. In order to maintain a 'balance between security and usability,' non-writable media will maintain its current behavior however. In any case, if it means no more autorun on flash drives, removable hard drives and network shares, that is definitely a step in the right direction. Will be interesting to see what malware creators do to get around this ..."
You're sitting on the other massive security hole.
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WTF?
You seem to be implying that there is such a thing as a windows machine without malware ...
Why don't you jump into your time machine and go tell that to Microsoft at its first implementation?
"You can't make this happen. It'll introduce another security hole vector. Yes in the future you'll be riddled with security problems. Yes. Also, as a sacrifice you'll have to appear not as 'user friendly' which will cut into your billions of dollars of revenue. See you in the future! Thanks!"
Sony Music has announced a lawsuit against Microsoft using the DMCA, claiming that the new software patch circumvents horribly inadequate copyright protection.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
In the beginning, there was a User.
This User did not possess the special knowledge of the Priests of the Cult of Computers.
This User was granted divine Manna from heaven in the form of a shining disc with an outer shell of a transparent horn-like material.
"Lo!" said he, "I have found the Sacred Tablet of AOL!"
And he put the Tablet in the Slot of Curious Whirrings, and nothing happened. And this was Good.
But the User was unhappy, and complained to the Disciples of AOL, that the sacred disc of AOL was defective.
And so the Disciples of AOL conferred with the Disciples of Borg.
Now, the Disciples discipled for a while, and determined that the User could never be trusted grok the mysteries of "Drive D". The Disciples agreed, also it was bothersome and unholy, to be summoned each time a Tablet was delivered by divine provenance to another User. And so Autorun was created.
Verily, the User could place the Sacred Tablet of AOL in the Slot of Curious Whirrings, and without any further discipling by the Disciples, could run AOL.
And thus were the Demons of AOL unleashed upon the world together with the Lord of PC Plague and Pestilence, he-who-should-not-be-named-but-nevertheless-I-will, Autorun.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
In any case, if it means no more autorun on flash drives, removable hard drives and network shares, that is definitely a step in the right direction.
Whoa...! Wait... they had autorun there too?!?! Dear god...
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Because Vista is so slow, Microsoft has graciously renamed this feature "auto-walk"
Hilarious!
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You're a disciple of AOL.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
With a name like readme, NO ONE will open up that shit!
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Humans are HORRIBLE at deciding what is safe to run at what isn't. That's the central security problem, and it probably won't be solved until we have intelligence.
there fixed that for you
Autorun does work really well... at installing rootkits on your machine from Sony/BMG CD's.
This made me wonder if Sony will now sue Microsoft for producing software that circumvents their copy protection.
I have met people who do not think about toilet paper and they stink.
Who needs toilet paper when you have three seashells?
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This made me wonder if Sony will now sue Microsoft for producing software that circumvents their copy protection.
No, Sony got in HUGE trouble for that (not sure if it was legal trouble, but after the public outcry, they recalled EVERYTHING and IIRC a court may have ordered them to do more or something...?).
**whoosh**