It may sound like a neat idea, but a lot of malware (The Conficker worm would be perhaps the most infamous example) has exploited the technology to infect computers via USB sticks in the past. You may have spotted the Autorun.inf files in the root directory of your USB sticks and on CDs in the past.
Not sure what Autorun is? It’s the technology which causes a program to start automatically when you insert a CD or USB stick into your Windows PC. Microsoft has rolled-out an “important, non-security update” through Windows Update, changing the behaviour of Autorun when you plug a USB stick into your computer.
Here’s some good news for anyone who has been struck by auto-running malware from a USB stick in the past.
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