checking removable drives

[Richard Gaskin]

Andre Garzia wrote:
> does anyone know if autorun.inf will work on usb drives?

Not normally, but a consortium of USB vendors at U3.org has developed a 
way to partition a USB drive to trick the OS into thinking one of its 
partitions is a CD-ROM, so now that security hole can be exploited by 
USB drives even more dangerously than ever before:

<http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513-6296529-1.html>

A similar auto-run option was once available on Mac OS, but was 
discontinued after QT 2.0 after it was used to spread a virus.

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