When you put a DVD in, you have to learn how to play a movie. Yes, this means that when you put an audio CD in your computer you will have to learn how to start the music. As you can see, you can control how autoplay responds to a variety of devices, but the safest option is “take no action” for everything. The most important entry is for “Software and Programs” which is the stuff that uses the traditional autorun functionality. Windows 7 actually calls it autoplay and the controls for it are in the control panel under hardware and sound.

Recently I have received some requests about how to eliminate autorun in Windows 7. In this other post I provide information about actually disabling autorun in some older versions of Windows.

Technically, this doesn’t fix autorun, it changes the behavior to make it far less dangerous. I provided download links for other versions of Windows in the post here.

For Windows 7 Microsoft has made some serious improvements, but for older versions of Windows Microsoft has ignored the obvious vulnerability and only offered the patch as an optional download instead of making it a critical update, as every security expert in the world knows it is. Long time readers know that I think autorun was Microsoft’s longest unpatched vulnerability. For Windows 7 Microsoft has made some serious improvements, but for older versions of Windows Microsoft has ignored the obvious vulnerability and only offered the patch as an optional download instead of making it a critical update, as

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