The Windows patch to AutoRun is now auto-installed
Back in January 2009, when this blog started, I wrote a trio of articles about AutoRun and AutoPlay, even offering a sample autorun.inf file that could be used to test how a Windows computer responded to various tricks bad guys played with the files underlying AutoRun and AutoPlay.
Most importantly, I described a registry update, from Nick Brown and Emin Atac, that totally and completely shut down every autorun.inf file, bar none. I have since used that registry update to disable AutoRun on many computers without regret.
Despite this simple, ironclad protection from the dangers of AutoRun, the technical press almost exclusively focuses on partial, buggy fixes from Microsoft. In August 2009, Microsoft released an update to AutoRun for Windows XP, Vista and some server versions of Windows that was, yet another, partial fix.
