Disabling Windows Auto-play

Windows Auto-play, the little box that pops up when you put in a disk or plug in an external drive. Not only can this be annoying, when it consistently asks you what to do every time you put in a disk, but it can also be a security risk. Some viruses will place an autorun file on any disk drive that is plugged into the computer; this means that once you take that drive to another windows pc and plug it in, autoplay will run the virus and now the secondary computer is also affected. Here are the ... read more!

Jan 18, 2009 11:47am by Mike Vandenberghe

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