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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Mike N.
date: 2007-03-25 19:53:26
subject: Re: Gotcha

From: Mike N. 

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:00:23 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>In Vista if a USB stick has an autorun.inf file it will not run
>automatically by default- you will receive a prompt asking if you want to
>run the program specified in the autorun.inf. That probably means that many
>users are only one click away from installing a virus

   It's at least comforting that they caught that one in their Vista
security analysis.    This should be retrofitted to XP/2000 IMO, since most
users are blissfully unaware of the dangers.

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