Re: Yet Another Security Hole
We've been telling everyone in earshot to switch off autoplay ever since the blasted "feature" was enabled for floppy drives, some - what, 35 years ago?
But software vendors and customers complained it made it "too hard to install software". Then it was "so much better" that you could also just put a music CD in and have it play.
Then we got USB playing the same tricks, to the delight of all the vendors at commercial shows (boats, cars, drugs - not just computers) with their advertising on "free" memory sticks.
And the *entire* time, autoplay was also being used to install trojans, viruses and rootkits (everyone wave at Sony).
Unless the Users get a damn great kickup the backside, their demand for convenience is going to stay. Sorry, this one I've given up blaming MS for, the Users want it. Blast them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
