• AutoRun and the companion feature AutoPlay are components of the Microsoft Windows operating system that dictate what actions the system takes when a...
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  • An autorun.inf file is a text file that can be used by the AutoRun and AutoPlay components of Microsoft Windows operating systems. For the file to be...
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  • AutoPlay (section AutoRun)
    application to play or display the content. It is closely related to the AutoRun operating system feature. AutoPlay was created in order to simplify the...
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  • installation vector is the AutoRun feature of the operating system. When a MediaMax disc is inserted into a Windows PC with AutoRun enabled, software on the...
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  • installed. An example of an INF file might have something like this: [autorun] open=example.exe What this would do is open the example.exe file automatically...
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  • Agent.BTZ, also named Autorun, is a computer worm that infects USB flash drives with spyware. A variant of the SillyFDC worm, it was used in a massive...
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    they can then infect new hosts through the Windows AutoRun mechanism using a manipulated autorun.inf. To start itself at system boot, the virus saves...
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  • Sysinternals (redirect from Autoruns)
    such as Process Explorer, an advanced version of Windows Task Manager, Autoruns, which Windows Sysinternals claims is the most advanced manager of startup...
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  • Documents, Recent documents, Fonts, Printers, and My Briefcase among others. AutoRun was introduced for CD drives. The user interface looked dramatically different...
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    software immediately on insertion of the drive using the Microsoft Windows AutoRun feature. Autorunning software this way does not work on all computers,...
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    Windows would automatically run a script (if present) on certain devices via AutoRun, one of which are USB mass storage devices, which may contain malicious...
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  • Backyard Baseball 2001 Cover art as taken from the game's AutoRun menu featuring a child caricature of Cal Ripken Jr. Developer(s) Humongous Entertainment...
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  • worm by Symantec in July 2009 and was later identified as Autorun-AMS, Autorun-AMW and Autorun-APL by Sophos. It acquired additional aliases from antivirus...
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    be exported, due to file-systems issues; see device access, below. The AutoRun feature of Windows worked on all removable media, allowing USB storage...
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  • PCs that have been related to these tools: Blackhole exploit kit Win32/Autorun Win32/Dorkbot Win32/Obfuscator A key changer or keychan is a variation...
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  • except for "ピタゴラスPythagoras", which is stylised in all caps. "Autorun" is stylised as "autoRun". "Synthesizer" is stylised as "synthesiz3r". Rémi Gallego...
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    The mandatory files and directories include an autorun.inf file compatible with the Windows 95 AutoRun feature; a CDPLUS and a PICTURES directories; and...
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  • November 21, 2008 Daprosy Worm Worm.Win32.VB.arz, W32.Autorun.worm.h, W32/Autorun-AMS, Worm:Win32/Autorun.UD Trojan Mass mailer July 15, 2009 Replaces folders...
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  • antivirus company ESET, which lists abuse of autorun.inf as first among the top ten threats in 2011. The Windows autorun.inf file contains information on programs...
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  • Backyard Baseball Cover art as taken from the game's AutoRun menu. Depicted are four of the game's "Backyard Kids"; clockwise from center: Pablo Sanchez...
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  • not to be confused with the related AutoRun feature, configured by a file on the media itself, although AutoRun is selectable as an AutoPlay option when...
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    inserting a compact disc in a Microsoft Windows computer will bypass the autorun feature. This ability has been used to circumvent the MediaMax CD-3 CD...
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    Kimbie, NOFX, La Roux, Darkside, DJAIKOVSKI ft. TK Wonder & MC Wasp, Ian Autorun, Borgore, Black Sun Empire, Jade Dr. Tamas Derce, the mayor of Újpest,...
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  • been modified by a Chinese subcontractor and shipped with the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah virus. As many as 1,800 drives sold in the Netherlands and Taiwan after...
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    audio and data content. Under Windows, inserting the disc will usually autorun an audio player utility, which plays the DRM-protected audio files provided...
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  • Store Tips Voice Recorder Weather Xbox Shell Action Center Aero AutoPlay AutoRun ClearType Explorer Search IFilter Indexing Service Namespace Saved search...
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  • into it. Anyone who then attached the stick to another computer set to autorun from USB would in turn become infected, and also pass on the infection...
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  • Soccer Cover art for the original PC release as taken from the game's AutoRun menu. Depicted are Ricky Johnson (left) and Gretchen Hasselhoff, two of...
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  • IO.SYS IBMDOS.COM / MSDOS.SYS SHELL (CONFIG.SYS directive) CONFIG.SYS autorun.inf ""Subst" Command Does Not Work in Autoexec.bat File in Windows Millennium...
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  • and can also spread themselves via USB flash drives by using Windows' Autorun capability. The following command in a batch file will delete all the data...
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