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(AND DISABLE AUTORUN!)

on the topic of disabling autorun, there was a patch earlier this year to disable autorun on non-shiny media by default in XP and Vista (it's already turned off in 7.)

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2011/06/14/autorun-a...

infections by autorun-abusing malware families dropped by over 60% as everything got patched, and total infection rate dropped by almost half.



Never underestimate the power of defaults.




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