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Microsoft To Disable Autorun

Posted by timothy on from the mounting-is-fine-but-opening-is-obnoxious dept.

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 ..."

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  1. Re:Erm.....What the hell? by Toonol · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As someone who likes autorun, my reaction to this is "yeah, because I like doing work myself that a computer is good at".

    Computers 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 strong AI.