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IBM Distributes USB Malware At Security Conference
bennyboy64 and other readers let us know that
IBM sent out an email to all attendees to the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) 2010 conference, warning them that some of the USB drives handed out to delegates contained malware. Fortunately it was old malware, which all anti-virus products have detected since 2008. Two years ago telecommunications company Telstra distributed malware-infected USB drives at the same conference.
No, I'd say:
It's a security conference, if you can't handle a USB drive with a (Windows program) virus you shouldn't be there.
how long until
The "all" was added by the summary writer. In the article the IBM spokesman said "most" anti-virus software.
Wightwick said the malware, which dated to 2008, was detected by most anti-virus products.
"The malware is known by a number of names and is contained in the setup.exe and autorun.ini files.
Why not simply disable autorun?
No, I've disabled autorun on Windows machines since 2000, and it's never been reenabled on any of them.