Boise, ID, USA and Bucharest, Romania, November 17th, 2010. Endpoint Protector launched the free AutoRun Disable tool, a solution designed to prevent malware infections spread through USB ports and ...

Many security experts recommend turning off the Autorun featureto stop a common malware tactic of infecting a removable drive,such as a USB drive, so that it will automatically attempt tospread ...

According to a biannual Security Intelligence Report from Microsoft, AutoRun—the feature in Windows that automatically executes files when you plug in a USB or connect to a network—accounts for almost ...

As malware authors and attackers have continued to employ the Windows AutoRun functionality to help spread their malicious creations–culminating famously in the Stuxnet worm–Microsoft has been making ...

Yes, this is a bit of a report from our post Monday, but we feel disabling Autorun is extremely important. Last week we went off to buy a CD—something we, like a lot of people, do on a regular basis.

Sony has come under fire lately for installing rootkits on Windows machines to disable users' ability to play CDs. Blogger Chris Gsell offers a simple solution. [I]t might be a good idea to completely ...