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Title: AutoRun changes in Windows 7 Post by: Alex on April 29, 2009, 07:56:18 AM AutoRun changes in Windows 7
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) have announced some AutoRun changes for Windows 7. Currently Conficker and other malware is taking advantage of the AutoRun functionality as a spreading mechanism. AutoRun is used to start some programs automatically when a CD or another media is inserted into a computer. The main purpose of AutoRun is to provide a software response to hardware actions that a user starts on a computer. In order to help prevent malware from spreading (such as Conficker) using the AutoRun mechanism, the Windows 7 engineering team made two important changes to the product:AutoPlay will no longer support the AutoRun functionality for non-optical removable media. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/Y8zGyLUcd_c/autorun-changes-in-windows-7 |