Hi all
I have been searching, googling and reading like crazy but I can not find anything that gives me information on this.
Assume I have a USB that has autorun.inf virus on it. Of course, before I put it into my computer, I would like to disable autorun so that whatever the autorun.inf is trying to execute (let's say virus.exe) as soon as I put in my USB, will be stopped.
My OS is Windows 7. I can not find any information on how to disable autorun. I can find a ton of articles on how to disable autoplay and there seems to be a huge confusion between AUTORUN and AUTOPLAY.
Autorun is as far as I know: Program that executes as soon as you put in your USB if it has autorun.inf that tells it to do so.
Autoplay is as far as I know: Window that comes up as soon as you put in your USB and asks you what you want to do.
As you can see; two different things that makes two different actions.
I have heard things about Autorun being disabled in Windows 7 and all that. But I can not find anything.
So, two questions:
1) Have I understood all this right?
2) How do I disable autorun on Win 7?
Much thanks.
(Of course I will have NIS 2011 - but what it if it's a new unknown virus, or old unknown virus that has only been spread within a few people?)