Windows Much Safer After Microsoft Killed Autorun
A safer, more idiot proof autorun.
Autorun is one way for malware to trick a user into installing some nefarious software from removable storage media. An executable could reside on a USB flash drive and, when inserted into a PC, would prompt the user to click the autorun file.
Back in February, Microsoft released an update that curbed autorun behavior for all supported Windows platforms stretching back to Windows XP SP3 to Windows Vista SP2 (Windows 7 already had a "fixed" autorun behavior and Windows XP SP2 was no longer supported through updates).
When comparing stats before and after the Microsoft update, we clearly see that blocking the autorun of removable storage had a significant effect on the infection rate. It may have been a tweak to stop a certain action on the users' part, but it was certainly effective.
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In other news, analysis of malware attacks proves killing idiots would eliminate malware alltogether.
Switching to Linux - 70918273081274981274917203120983450% Malware Attacks decreased.
So most infections still come from..
Hahaha, yes who on earth thought autorun was EVER a good idea. I managed to temporarily brick my supervisor's laptop with a vesnakurva virus that must have gotten on to my USB stick from another windows machine in the department. (I don't take those sticks home, and if I did they'd only be going into linux boxes). She was furious at the time, but we laugh about it now... and she no longer lets anyone put USBs in her machines autorun or not.
When comparing stats before and after the Microsoft update, we clearly see that blocking the autorun of removable storage had a significant effect on the infection rate. It may have been a tweak to stop a certain action on the users' part, but it was certainly effective.
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