usbkeys with U3 and their removal?

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Dec 8 09:04:22 UTC 2007


Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 06/12/2007, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
>> I think autorun is inherently bad. No, not "bad" "Evil" is a better work.
>> In "group policy" one can turn autorun off for all devices.
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
> 
> I have a Cruzer 2GB that _had_ U3. It would autorun even on Windows
> machines that were set _not_ to autorun USBsticks. I assume this is
> because it presented itself as a CD. I also had to have a friend with
> a windows machine uninstall the U3 crap.

"all devices" includes CD-ROM devices.

Personally, I don't have a problem with the U3 stuff, I'm too busy 
wondering what I can install in its place.

Inserting my Sandisk and installing Windows would be cool (it's part of 
my job description). I have a CD that does that, but it's _so_ bulky.

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Cheers
John

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