Nothing beats a USB port for convenience, whether you want to quickly transport a couple gigabytes of files for work, refresh the lineup on your MP3 player, or view the pictures from your recent trip ...

As an incident responder and forensic investigator, there's a truth we expect malware to always follow: Persistence is a must to survive. OK, exceptions exist. But the general rule of thumb is that ...

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 ...

Microsoft late Wednesday countered claims by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) that its advice for disabling Windows’ “Autorun” was flawed, prompting US-CERT to update an alert it ...

Microsoft today credited a February security update for lowering AutoRun-abusing malware infection rates on Windows XP and Vista by as much as 82% since the start of the year. Four months ago, ...

Microsoft is pushing out a software update to some Windows users that fixes a bug in the Windows AutoRun software, used to automatically launch programs when DVDs or USB devices are introduced to the ...

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As expected, Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday is big: 22 bugs fixed via 12 updates, including patches for three zero-day exploits. Microsoft also made a change to the Autorun services in XP and ...

Panda, an antivirus software company, has a new free Panda USB Vaccine available for download that can disable the Windows Autorun feature for an entire PC or a particular USB drive. The Autorun ...

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 ...

A recent update to Microsoft's Sysinternals Autoruns program is causing the program to crash as its scans for autostarts in Windows. For those not familiar with Autoruns, it is a free utility from ...

Microsoft is pushing out a fix for a bug in its AutoRun feature that US-CERT has deemed a security issue Microsoft is pushing out a software update to some Windows users that fixes a bug in the ...