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Re: Exploit: Windows95/98/ (NT?) Autorun

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Groessler)
Thu May 28 16:57:13 1998

Date: 	Thu, 28 May 1998 18:26:52 +0100
Reply-To: Christian Groessler <cpg@ALADDIN.DE>
From: Christian Groessler <cpg@ALADDIN.DE>
X-To:         adam@HOMEPORT.ORG
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG

On 5/26/98 9:32:24 PM         Adam Shostack  wrote:
>
>Aleph One wrote:
>| This is a summary of this thread. I am killing it here.
>
>No! I must get my two cents in! ;)
>
>More seriously, the below only works on Win95. Under NT, you need the
TweakUI control panel from MS power tools.

Or simply set
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdrom\Autorun
to 0 to disable autorun on NT

regards,
chris

>
>Adam
>
>| Axon <axon2017@students.johnco.cc.ks.us> show us how to disable the
>| AutoRun feature:
>|
>| 1) Get to the "System" Control panel.  This is accessible by right
>|    clicking on the "My Computer" icon and selecting "Properties" or by
>|    selecting "System" from the control panel.
>|
>| 2) Choose the "Device Manager" tab in the System Properties window, and
>|    Expand the "CDROM" branch by clicking on the + next to it.  This will
>|    display all CD-ROM devices attached to your computer.
>
>--
>"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
>-Hume

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