On Saturday 16 June 2007 16:36, Rony wrote: > Nishit Dave wrote: > > I got infected when I used somebody's unscanned drive (or was it > > an ipod?). XP charmingly told me that my new software had been > > installed and would be loaded when I restart the machine. > > > > So much for auto-loading software. > > Did you complain to M$ about it?
Self loading anything is a big security hole. Even if it is restricted to userspace. A device driver on most of today's os loads into kernel space and could freak out on your machine. We have enough problems from userland on some of the crap that label themselves os without the added joy of autoloading various crap suitably trojaned. It is a daft suggestion. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
