Many people are confused about Windows Autorun and Autoplay, including otherwise competent techies. You may be confused and not even realize it. I was. In the good old days, neither Autorun nor ...

My first posting on the topic of Autorun/Autoplay, Test your defenses against malicious USB flash drives, described three ways that bad guys trick people into running malicious software that resides ...

Here’s some good news for anyone who has been struck by auto-running malware from a USB stick in the past. Microsoft has rolled-out an “important, non-security update” through Windows Update, changing ...

Never done it before, but what about something like SyncToy and an autorun script on the USB drive that starts a sync upon plugging it in? SyncToy has command line options and can search for the ...

Few features in Windows have as colored a history as AutoPlay. In its early days, the setting was infamous for passing viruses from errant USB drives to PCs. In more recent versions of Windows, ...

Here’s some good news. Microsoft has revealed on one of its blogs that the next version of Windows will change the way in which the operating system handles USB flash drives to fight the growing ...