jtd wrote:
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.

Even in Linux?

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