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

From: Christian Groessler (cpgat_private)
Date: Thu May 28 1998 - 10:26:52 PDT

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    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 <axon2017at_private> 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.
    >
    >--
    >"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
    >-Hume
    



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