On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Paul Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can you use autostart? Does that even work on USB drives??? >
Not surprisingly, it turns out that automatically launching programs when a device is inserted into a computer can lead to security exploits. Rather than improving the underlying security model, Microsoft chose to limit AutoRun/AutoPlay to only CD and DVD drives - see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971029. The U3 USB plugin gets around this by creating a partition that looks like a CD to Windows. I'm sure that makes it more secure :) ... But that disqualifies the autostart as a means to start a backup, I think... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
