Comments on: Autorun.inf Does Not Work In Windows 7 Anymore

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:51:41 +0000

Hi there,
I want to add an auto run on a CD.
Windows 7 has a pop up asking if you wanna open the file.
XP: just opens my page. (it’s a mini site on the CD more for product info etc)
this is what I’ve always used in my inf file
[AutoRun]
shellexecute=”home.html”

how can I “disable” the win 7 dialog box and make the html page open?
basically I need the script to be on the CD so if someone has win 7 it will read the script and open I’m not really concerned about XP
hope someone can help.

thanks
Sandy

By: uktech

uktech — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:55:39 +0000

Oh dear me, so much misinformation, I don’t know where to start…

Basically, Chris and Electronomad are on the right track: the autorun.inf file (not the virus) IS very useful…or should I say *was* – cheers Microsoft….now we can thank you for making tech support much harder, (see Chris’s comments) and not protecting us from viruses (in general) – as the first thing any of my customers will do, is checkout the USB drive manually. This in all likelihood will execute a virus – if they had one in the first place.

The customer or end user, of *any* USB drive could still pickup a virus infection from *any* machine they use.

Would you like me to list the viruses that can infect your USB stick *without* using Autorun? I would also like to add a very important note – that viruses are created by people who take advantage of the fact, that little or no protection exists for the new virus when it is first released.

All anti virus solutions are *re*active – by definition. Yes, there are types of heuristic analysis, but, ultimately, the virus writers have the upper hand – they can see and scrutinize everything that is produced to counter their viruses and we, the end users, have *no* idea of what’s coming next.

So how, exactly, has stopping the ‘autorun’ feature made the world any safer?

Rant over, I’ll descend from my soap-box now.

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By: joshua

joshua — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:32:00 +0000

what??? howw

By: DeviaAnimus

DeviaAnimus — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:12:40 +0000

Here’s a way around this. Partition the usb with a CDFS part.

http://www.squidoo.com/usbcd

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:51:03 +0000

Who ever says the Autorun.inf virus is fine or good is a total idiot, don’t be fulled by wanabe tech noobs
YES there are your normal autorun.inf files, but there IS a virus/worm out there that pretends to be a normal autorun, and it copies a recycler file/s across to pc, and basically keeps loading it onto any exterrnal usb device.
Eventually your pc is at risk and it also modifies right click ..and god knows what else that you can’t see.
I’ve had this worm virus before…
Have a look at this site, it tells you all about it
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001575.html

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:14:27 +0000

As a developer, this ‘sucks’, I have never used autorun.inf in the 15 years since it started (Win 95), now, when i need to use it to install an app for Win 7, say on a usb stick, it has been withdrawn, wonderful! (not). My customers will now have to a number of steps to get the program working, which means that i can expect them ringing me up asking me how to do this.
‘Type dir (enter)’
‘direnter’
‘it says program can’t be found’
‘dir (enter key)’
‘what’s an enter key?’
‘Carriage return’
‘Where’s that on the keyboard?’
‘The arrow pointing left’
‘I have 3 arrows pointing left’ – AAAAARRRGGGHHH – You see what we are going bak to because Windows has removed autorun.inf for usb drives!

By: atroll

atroll — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:56:27 +0000

Again, it sounds like you don’t know what the autorun.inf virus is. The file itself is not a virus, but something that can be edited by viruses to transmit the virus to new computers.

By: atroll

atroll — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:53:18 +0000

Eh, don’t be a tool. If you knew anything about how viruses work you’d understand how USB devices make perfect carriers.

“You don’t know it’s infected till you run it.” Run what? You ever tried to “run” a USB drive? It doesn’t work without autorun.inf

By: ham

ham — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:29:53 +0000

this is annoying because i cant autorun my backup

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:55:46 +0000

To be honest, I think it is very useful, but should be changed. I think Microsoft should have made an option when you first get the program Windows 7 to turn autorun.inf off or on (with “on” not recommended). This will give users the ability to turn it off when not needed (to protect from autorun.inf viruses) but they can temporarily turn it on before they insert their usb drive, if they need the file to autorun. Ten they may turn it off. Or they could personalize it to where only preferred USB Drives can do autorun.inf, like their own, protecting from external and internal intruding viruses and giving the user the advancement of autorun.inf from their own drive:).

By: murray

murray — Wed, 26 May 2010 11:54:55 +0000

Removal of this facility can cause real problems, for example:

An autorun CD is fine until you have (say) a notebook that does not have a drive.
If it runs Windows 7 you are snookered – can’t autorun from USB either.

More and more machines are being sold like this.

Answer ,…….?

By: Terrible

Terrible — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:23:50 +0000

Terrible news. I have seen viruses use the autorun feature to spread through usb drives but I easily stopped them. Even in XP (at least SP2) would prompt the user if they wanted to run the app or not. I have perfectly valid applications that make use of this feature.

By: BadNew

BadNew — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:32:48 +0000

Bad news for fellows Black hat Coders.. Like me,,,,

By: Denzuko

Denzuko — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:44:08 +0000

really?? stop listening to scare ware bollics, and just learn something about the technology your using. Really. all you have to do is delete the autorun.inf or use tweakui to turn off autorun for your drives. Dead simple. Its not a virus just because some anti-virus/anti-malware suite gave you a pop up.

And on top of it all read those pop ups, thier not a bad thing just thier to show you something. if a “There’s no disk in the driver please insert a disk” comes up the check which drive letter is asking that, if its A: B: or D: drives then its your legacy removable media drives like those old floppy drives and cdrom drives.

By: Denzuko

Denzuko — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:36:33 +0000

WTF!!! autorun virus?!?! what are you guys moronic or something. Yes, one can create a SwitchBlade USB that can contain so call malware. But this is where commonsense, true trusted computing and not listening to that bollics coming out of corporate scareware. Autorun.inf is not a virus! it is a feature created for removiable storage media to run your installers or what ever you program it to do. Its time to get off your scareware high horse and learn something about how your computer works under the hood. Or better yet, join the open source movement(which again requires you to learn the workings under the hood) and become a free netizen of the world.

By: Kenzu

Kenzu — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:09:41 +0000

you wrong guys i got infected by autorun.inf on windows 7 32bit ultimate i followed every possible instruction remover and used avast,kaspersky,avira,avg,and nod32 still they can't solve my problem cause “Autorun.inf” folder still in my drivers and i can't open some binary files like game patch when you click these .EXE a MSDOS file pop out with some kind a “~YEYUPDATE_PATCH” named on these MSDOS 2nd an “There is no Disk in the driver please insert a disk” pop out this is the sign that you got infected and there's nothing you can do reformatting a driver from desktop using rightclick still can't solve this a message saying “reformatting is unable to complete” but the driver is empty although there's still 5MB inside it..when this happens to you dont expect that you can solve your problem and probably this will lead you to full reformat with reinstall the OS…

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By: electronomad

electronomad — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:27:19 +0000

I disagree that it's good news. I use it all the time and have never gotten any viruses. Besides I see no difference in autorun running a program with a virus attached or manually running a program witht the virus attached. If autrun doesn't run the program then what do you do, you open the drive and manually run it which installs the virus anyway.. Think about it people. You don't know if it's infected till you run it. If you do know it's infected and haven't removed it from your drive already then your an idiot. Again microsoft has taken a useful feature and dumbed it down while adding extra clicks to get something done, simply because people to stupid to be careful. Windows is becoming so “Idiot Proof” orientated it's becoming far less competition to other OS's like Linux and alot less productive for advanced users.

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By: kaloskagatos

kaloskagatos — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:34:26 +0000

"Microsoft has removed the autorun.inf feature from Windows 7": this is not completely correct. Autorun still works for DVD/CDs.

"AutoPlay will no longer support the AutoRun functionality for non-optical removable media. In other words, AutoPlay will still work for CD/DVDs but it will no longer work for USB drives." (http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/04/28...)

By: Osama

Osama — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:30:38 +0000

Good news that Autorun.inf feature it's too annoying virus ,i have tried autorun eater and it really remove this virus

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By: Osama

Osama — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:30:38 +0000

Good news that Autorun.inf feature it's too annoying virus ,i have tried autorun eater and it really remove this virus