Where are 'autoplay' and 'autorun'

[HenriK]

Messages on the 'conficker' virus cirulating tell me to disable Windows
'autoplay' and 'autorun'.

Can anyone point me toward a tutorial on where to find them?

Thanks for any assistance.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Mon Mar 09 2009 15:03:50 GMT-0700 (Pacific
Daylight Time), and on a whim, HenriK pounded out on the keyboard:

Messages on the 'conficker' virus cirulating tell me to disable Windows
'autoplay' and 'autorun'.

Can anyone point me toward a tutorial on where to find them?

Thanks for any assistance.

Hi Henri,

Read this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967715


Terry R.

 

[ju.c]

These will make the job easy for you:

AutoPlayConfig 164 KB (Freeware)
Info: http://www.typhoonsoftware.com/autoplayconfig.htm
Download: http://www.autoruntyphoon.com/AutoPlayConfig.zip

Autoplay Repair 225 KB (Freeware)
Main page: http://www-stud.uni-essen.de/~sddabacz/prog.php?id=apr
Homepage: http://www.orangeblue.net.ms/
Download: http://www-stud.uni-essen.de/~sddabacz/apr/APR.zip

CleanHandlers 73 KB (Freeware)
Info: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/autoplayhandlers.htm
Download: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/utils/cleanhandlers_2_4.zip

AutoRun Settings 9 KB (Freeware)
Info: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html
Download: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/autorunsettings.zip


ju.c

 

[VanguardLH]

Messages on the 'conficker' virus cirulating tell me to disable Windows
'autoplay' and 'autorun'.

Can anyone point me toward a tutorial on where to find them?

Thanks for any assistance.

Get Microsoft's own TweakUI utility and use it to disable auto-play.
You can use it to disable auto-play only on specific drive letters or
have it disable it altogether (but can still differentiate between
CD/DVD drives and/or removable drives).

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx

This version is for 32-bit Windows. Some of its settings don't work
under 64-bit versions of Windows (I heard there is a 64-bit version but
was someone's personal hack because Microsoft didn't come out with one).
You never mentioned WHICH version of Windows XP that you use.