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Spikes Detected In Autorun Malware
msm1267 writes "Researchers recently have seen a major increase in the volume of autorun malware in some countries, thanks to a couple of new worms infecting those older machines. The two new worms, Worm.JS.AutoRun and Worm.Java.AutoRun, both take advantage of the autorun functionality to spread, and the JavaScript worm has other methods of propagation, as well. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab say that the volume of autorun worms has remained relatively constant over the last few months, but there was a major spike in those numbers in April and May, thanks to the distribution of the two new pieces of malware."
...and you won't autorun a virus.
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
This is the first time that I have seen a description of Windows as "an open platform" and that it is not a "walled garden".
This is absolutely a mind-blowing statement.
Windows is a closed platform.
Windows is a walled "garden".
Its problems are totally of Microsoft's own creation. They knew better but choose to ignore the security hole they created. They have chosen to let the security hole remain.