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#1 User is offline   I_Broke_My_MHZ 

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Posted 17 August 2005 - 08:12 PM

I had a few friends who got infected simply by inserting another persons USB thumb drive or hard drive. I have AV software, but so did they, and they still got messed up :}

So I was wondering, how do the viruses run themselves just by inserting the drive? More importantly, is there software that will stop this autorun like behavior?

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Posted 18 August 2005 - 06:04 AM

Maybe you have Autorun enabled for the drive where your USB Stick gets mounted on. Disable Autorun (e.g. with Tweakui for this drive and you're fine.

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Posted 18 August 2005 - 01:08 PM

Okay, I unchecked "enable autoplay for removable drives". That's it huh? Cool, thanks :)

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