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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple, on the other hand, pretty well embodies this idea.