auto-start from flash drive

[MisterX]

well he asked so i answered...

i didn't want to mention the old wdef and cdef virii for the mac and why
that (awful) feature got condemned but you're right...

most 'self-respecting' pc-users would disable this after inserting 2 cds in
any PC ;)

cheers
Xav

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Klaus Major
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 18:42
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: auto-start from flash drive
> 
> Hi sims,
> 
> > Is it possible to auto-start an application (Windows or OS 
> X) from a 
> > flash drive?
> 
> NO way on a Mac!
> 
> Since one of the extremely rare Mac virii used the autostart 
> mechanism to spread in the old HyperCard days, this is a Mac NoNo :-)
> 
> See Xavier's post concerning windows, where this ANTI-feature 
> is kind of standard, but can be disabled by the user!
> 
> > ciao,
> > sims
> 
> Regards
> 
> Klaus Major
> klaus at major-k.de
> http://www.major-k.de
> 
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