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  • KB971029 “Autoplay/Autorun” Update Pushed to XP/Vista Users

    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 06:57 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    In early February, Microsoft offered the KB971029 “Autoplay/Autorun” update to XP & Vista users as an Optional update. Recently Microsoft has “pushed” the KB971029 update through Automatic Updates and has “reclassified” KB971029 as a “high-priority” update.

    Important to note that KB971029 disables the “Autoplay” or “Autorun” feature on XP/Vista for removable USB flash drives and does not change the Autorun/Autoplay behavior for CD/DVD drives. This was done to protect XP/Vista users from the “Conficker” and “Stuxnet” worms that exploit the Autorun feature and infect computers when a flash drive is connected to them.

    More on this by reading this Computerworld article on KB971029.

    Also note that Windows 7 has Autoplay/Autorun disabled for removable USB drives by default.

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