Comments on: Microsoft Disables Autorun http://blog.paradigmcc.com/2009/04/29/microsoft-disables-autorun/ Information technology and security advice for small businesses. Thu, 05 May 2011 16:41:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill McGonigle http://blog.paradigmcc.com/2009/04/29/microsoft-disables-autorun/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Bill McGonigle Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:04:38 +0000 http://blog.paradigmcc.com/?p=88#comment-8 Yeah, U3 is evil. But it exists because people have a job to be done. The only way to solve the problem is to provide a way for people to do what they want to get done, securely. If you just prevent them they'll find some way to route around that. Trick is, this can't be solved unless Microsoft wishes to do so. Maybe this change signals they'll be fixing it. Yeah, U3 is evil. But it exists because people have a job to be done. The only way to solve the problem is to provide a way for people to do what they want to get done, securely. If you just prevent them they’ll find some way to route around that. Trick is, this can’t be solved unless Microsoft wishes to do so. Maybe this change signals they’ll be fixing it.

]]> By: Peter Nikolaidis http://blog.paradigmcc.com/2009/04/29/microsoft-disables-autorun/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Peter Nikolaidis Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:32:10 +0000 http://blog.paradigmcc.com/?p=88#comment-7 You can specify what app to invoke, but we've found that such preferences can break. Personally, I think U3 is evil. You can specify what app to invoke, but we’ve found that such preferences can break.

Personally, I think U3 is evil.

]]> By: Bill McGonigle http://blog.paradigmcc.com/2009/04/29/microsoft-disables-autorun/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Bill McGonigle Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:27:47 +0000 http://blog.paradigmcc.com/?p=88#comment-6 Nice. Security-minded people have been complaining about this since Windows 95. I like how Microsoft admits that the decision to autorun was only wrong now that Conflicker is here. :) Time to invest in whomever owns U3! Does Windows not have a media preferences setting to open an app when it detects a digital camera-like media inserted? GNOME/KDE/MacOS do this. Nice. Security-minded people have been complaining about this since Windows 95. I like how Microsoft admits that the decision to autorun was only wrong now that Conflicker is here. :)

Time to invest in whomever owns U3!

Does Windows not have a media preferences setting to open an app when it detects a digital camera-like media inserted? GNOME/KDE/MacOS do this.

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