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Re: Exploit: Windows95/98/ (NT?) Autorun


From: cpg () ALADDIN DE (Christian Groessler)
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 18:26:52 +0100


On 5/26/98 9:32:24 PM         Adam Shostack  wrote:

Aleph One wrote:
| This is a summary of this thread. I am killing it here.

No! I must get my two cents in! ;)

More seriously, the below only works on Win95. Under NT, you need the
TweakUI control panel from MS power tools.

Or simply set
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\Autorun
to 0 to disable autorun on NT

regards,
chris


Adam

| Axon <axon2017 () students johnco cc ks us> show us how to disable the
| AutoRun feature:
|
| 1) Get to the "System" Control panel.  This is accessible by right
|    clicking on the "My Computer" icon and selecting "Properties" or by
|    selecting "System" from the control panel.
|
| 2) Choose the "Device Manager" tab in the System Properties window, and
|    Expand the "CDROM" branch by clicking on the + next to it.  This will
|    display all CD-ROM devices attached to your computer.

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