Its now very common to see Autorun.Inf file in many of your folders and USB drives. This file contains some Information which defines a file and its path which shall be executed automatically by Windows. In Win XP users this is very automatic and it happens with out any confirmation. Vista & Win 7 gives a basic protection against this.It is very easy to get affected by a virus (without even clicking an infected file) by making use of this Autorun.inf file.
Disabling this Feature prevents executables work automatically, however manual execution is possible.
Goto Run (WinKey+R) and open Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)
Navigate to Adminstrative Settings In User/Computer Configurations
Find the System Policies, and expand to find Flags
Find the Policy Flag "TurnOff Autoplay"
Double click & Set the property Disabled-->>All Drives
Logoff & Logon Again
After this actions, A cd or Pendrive will not work Automatically, you will have to mannually open the respective drive from the My computer. Its better to use Open choice from Right-Click Menu of that drive.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
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