Goodbye, Windows Autorun!

After more than a decade of hesitation, Microsoft finally announced the closure of the autorun features of all old versions of Windows.

Autorun is an operating system's convenient mechanism. When you insert removable media such as USB flash memory and CD, the system automatically reads the autorun. inf file in the root directory and runs the specifiedProgram,

However, later users discovered that such behavior could encourage the spread of malware. Therefore, Microsoft later defined the strict Autorun method and allowed users to pass the registry,

Group Policy and so on (according to statistics, millions of users have been disabled ).

In the past few years, Autorun has been notorious for malware. In today's "important non-Security Updates", Microsoft has completely disabled Autorun features including earlier Windows versions.

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