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- When you insert a software CD-ROM into the drive on your Windows machine, it can be nice that the installer runs automatically. If you insert a virus infected USB stick, it is not so nice that the virus runs automatically… Microsoft has a knowledge base article about disabling AutoRun (KB953252) on the current versions of Windows. The procedure may require you to install a patch (all instructions are included in the article).
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- Adam asked me about an old document I had written about preventing a Windows NT machine from causing an ISDN router to dialup unnecessarily. I think I had junked the document as too old, but maybe it still is a useful reference. So I have restored it from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.