USB Pen Drive: Autorun programs.

[Wayne D]

This program allows you to have program start automatically on a USB pen
drive when inserted into the USB port.

The program is in French.

Found on this French site from this list of programs

http://www.gratilog.net/systeme1.htm

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=fr_en&url=http://www
..gratilog.net/systeme1.htm

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pav-3dgc-
origami/PB/TelechargementsPB/Usb_Autorun.zip

http://oliv.ift.fr/

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pav-3dgc-origami/PB/TelechargementsPB.htm

Auto translated to English.

"USB Autorun

Win 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003 - 13 KB

Usb Autorun makes it possible to make autoruns on all types of removable
supports such as external hard disks or keys USB, but also of the
removable supports functions in FireWire. Usb Autorun functions without
installation, places it in any repertory and uses it without problems. "

and the help file:


"Thank you to have downloaded USB Autorun, Go regularly to:
http://oliv.ift.fr/ Purebasic section to discover new updates. Once the
launched program, it will not any more remain you but to insert a key USB
or any other removable peripheral USB or FireWire (IEE1394) with a file
"Autorun.inf" into the root so that this Autorun is carried out. The file
"Autorun.inf" must just contain the name of the program or the file to be
carried out. If need be, you can specify the relative way: Example: Your
removable peripheral contains the program "Programme.exe" which you want
to launch, it is enough to put in the file "Autorun.inf" the line:
Programme.exe On the other hand if you want to launch the file
"Fichier.txt" which is in the file "Mon_dossier" then it will be
necessary to put: Mon_Dossier\Fichier.txt This example is registered in
the file "Autorun.inf" contained in file ZIP. The function "Throw with
starting" acts on the register, therefore you do not worry if a program
says to you that it is modified, on the other hand strip this function if
you remove the program or change it file. Oliv, addresses email:
(e-mail address removed)"


I have tried it. The program works well. Can be set to autorun on
computer start up. The program has to be running on the host computer
"Usb Autorun.exe". On the USB pen drive, on the root, a file named
"Autorun.inf" needs to be configured with the "folder name\program.exe".

Once the USB pen drive is connected. the program starts.

Apparently, there is no easy way to get a USB pen drive to autostart a
program. If anyone knows of a way without some kind of configuration to
the host computer, please, let me know.

http://www.911cd.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t13205.html

Regards

Wayne D

 

[Slarty]

This program allows you to have program start automatically on a USB pen
drive when inserted into the USB port.

Sounds like a great tool for introducing malware onto a PC.

 

[Simone Murdock]

Sounds like a great tool for introducing malware onto a PC.

Why ??
It's more complicated and much less automatic than CD autorun (no S.O.
support: need the program to be installed)...

Actually, only very very very few people in the world use this software
and a virus could have much more diffusion by all the other traditional
methods (email, .doc documents, autostart dir & regkey,...) instead of
inserting itself in the USB-key, changing the autorun.inf file and
hoping that the USB-key will be inserted in an other computer with
autorun software installed.

Simon
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[Slarty]

Why ??
It's more complicated and much less automatic than CD autorun (no S.O.
support: need the program to be installed)...

Did you not read this, or are you saying the referenced application doesn't
do what it claims?

This program allows you to have program start automatically on a USB pen
drive when inserted into the USB port

That seems perfectly clear to me. Plug the drive in, the program starts
automatically, and away you go.

 

[Simone Murdock]

are you saying the referenced application doesn't do what it claims?

It does...but not on every computer, but only in which is running USB
Autorun.
USB-AUtorun.exe must me installed on computer, not on the USB-key.

Also Wayne in the thread said: "...I have tried it. The program works
well. Can be set to autorun on computer start up.
***** The program has to be running on the host computer "Usb
Autorun.exe". ******
On the USB pen drive, on the root, a file named "Autorun.inf" needs to
be configured with the "folder name\program.exe"."

In other words, this program (USB Autorun) stay in the tray of the
computer and wait until an USB-key is inserted: when it happen, it
search in the root of the USB-key a text file named "Autorun.inf" and
execute the program path written in it.

Simon

P.S. It's useful: I'm trying to teach navigating to my parents... :-/
To make things easier, when they insert (also without me!) a specific
(old) USB-key, Autorun-USB recognize it and starts an AutoIt3 script
which close all useless (for them) programs, open internet connection
and launch Opera (I use another browser) with very big fonts!!
When they close Opera, script ask if computer has to be turned off...
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by Yoda, Jedi Master (from anonymous poster)
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[Klaatu]

P.S. It's useful: I'm trying to teach navigating to my parents... :-/
To make things easier, when they insert (also without me!) a specific
(old) USB-key, Autorun-USB recognize it and starts an AutoIt3 script
which close all useless (for them) programs, open internet connection
and launch Opera (I use another browser) with very big fonts!!
When they close Opera, script ask if computer has to be turned off...

If you know AutoIt at all, you could have written a simple AutoIt script to
do the exact same thing as this Autorun-USB program does. I thought about
writing one (would take maybe 20 minutes), but figured it's not really
autorun now, is it, when you have to have a program running on the machine
that you're about to plug the USB drive into. It's like pulling yourself up
by your own bootstraps; sure you can do it if someone's above you lifting
you by your shoulders.

 

[Simone Murdock]

If you know AutoIt at all

No, I don't...the hardest part would be how to catch the event of the
USB-key inserting... :-/

Simon
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"Try not! Do, or do not. There is no try."
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