From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> Oh cool, so if I copy a CD to a memory stick and the CD has an autorun, I
> should be able to have it work just like the cd.

No - a *standard* USB drive is different from a CD, although you can make a
USB autorun like a CD.

However I'm not sure that anyone has taken my point:
- Do whatever you like to disable autorun for your USB.
- Try my scenario - it WILL autorun.

Apparently there is some magic handshake whereby the USB device tells the
system what it is capable of. It might be a keyboard, an emulated disk
drive, or other stuff.

One security posting suggested that it might be possible to have a gadget
that looks like a USB memory stick, but which identifies itself as a
keyboard, and it might be able to stuff keystrokes into the computer to do
any task that the user is capable of (an unstoppable autorun).

Apparently you can buy USB memory sticks that emulate a CD drive. They do
this on the assumption that most users have CD autorun enabled, so
inserting the tricky USB device will autorun (to present your company's
fabulous marketing presentation without waiting for anything old fashioned
like permission to run).

http://www.udrw.com/

John

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