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Re: Disabling autorun for mapped network drives
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:46:31 +0200
On 2007-07-26 Johnny Wong wrote:
Over the past few months, we have faced situations where user PCs were infected with virus when they connect to network mapped drives. What happened was that the virus creates "autorun.inf" in the root of the shared network drive, so users who double-click the drive in Explorer, the autorun.inf executes the linked virus-infected executable. Evem though the user PCs have anti-virus installed, the incidents we faced so far, the virus was not detectable. It was realised later that the virus was a new strain. We have tried to disable the mapped-drives autorun feature (based on registry key settings); however, it was not foolproof because the autorun.inf was still able to execute in some cases. We found later from Microsoft's KB (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933008) that this registry setting may not work. So we did not roll out this registry settings to the users. Anyone of you facing the same situation as me? I can only think of the following solutions: - keep AV signatures updated - this is not foolproof because most of the time, the virus writers are leading the game. So we can only try to send the first specimen we find ASAP to the AV vendors so that they could develop signatures for them. Guessed by that time, a number of users would have been infected. - run a task on the file server that regularly checks for presence of autorun.inf in the root of the shared folders, and if found, rename or delete them. Implementation of this task will impact the performance of the server when it hosts a lot of shared folders. Please share your workarounds if you have any.
Disable autorun via group policy for all drives. Problem solved. Autorun is evil(tm). Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
Current thread:
- Disabling autorun for mapped network drives Johnny Wong (Jul 26)
- RE: Disabling autorun for mapped network drives Jesse Eaton (Jul 26)
- Re: Disabling autorun for mapped network drives Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jul 26)
- RE: Disabling autorun for mapped network drives tima (Jul 27)
- Re: Disabling autorun for mapped network drives WALI (Jul 30)
- Re: Disabling autorun for mapped network drives Tima Soni (Jul 31)