Many security experts recommend turning off the Autorun featureto stop a common malware tactic of infecting a removable drive,such as a USB drive, so that it will automatically attempt tospread ...

Virus attacks are far more common with the increasing use of the internet and external hard drives. One of the most common viruses found is the autorun.inf file. USB flash drives are the most ...

More malware these days resort to ‘autorun.inf’ file tactics, and as such, there is a need for a tool that automatically monitors and removes suspicious autorun.inf files found in the root directory ...

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 ...

Even though that protection is now available for all supported versions of Windows from XP to Windows 7, it isn't necessarily installed. So BitDefender has released USB Immunizer to prevent the ...

Here’s some good news in the ongoing fight against Windows-based malware – it appears that there has been a significant drop in the number of computers being infected by malware which exploits the ...

Can anyone tell me if this is possible and how I would do it? I have a USB that is bootable to DOS. I want to know if I can add a way so that when DOS is fully booted up a script will be automatically ...

Free software that prevents viruses infected by autorun (automatic startup) when USB memory is connected to PC is "Bitdefender USB Immunizer"is. Create a dummy autorun.inf file in the USB memory and ...

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 ...

Microsoft has finally decided to push out a Windows update that should stop attempts to exploit AutoRun with a USB stick. AutoRun is a feature of the Windows operating system that fires up any program ...