That said, is an awesome site, and I never leave home without my 4GB flash drive, which has the only browser I ever use, as well as ZSNES and Nestopia, a full office suite, and more. With 256MB flash drives at a nearly disposable price, it's a blossoming risk! A hacker can basically stroll up, drop a CD or USB drive into the system, and walk away.leaving his malicious code destroying your data. If you trust what you put in, and don't leave your system unattended where malicious users can access it, then you're not really at much risk.īut for any reasonably public computer, it's a very bad idea. Having auto run enabled for ANY device (CD-ROM or removeable media) is a pretty large security hole. This is a simple yet useful utility to access to associated files and remove suspious programs from your computer. Scarier still is that U3 drives CAN auto run programs and code without any input from the user! There are numerous tutorials on this across the Internet, and while it's slightly technically inclined, it's simple enough that a great number of people could make a drive which when inserted wreaks real havoc on the system it's plugged into. Autorun works with 'autorun.inf' and opens any associated file:openautorun.exe index.html. What looks like an entry to run Portable Firefox, actually executes malicious code). Thankfully, it's not fully automatic in starting programs, but a malicious program could be triggered by spoofing a legitimate entry (i.e.
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