On Feb 16, 2008 8:58 AM, Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> wrote:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BU47V0VOH.DTL&ty... says that USB devices are being sold with infected autorun apps. "If you plug in, you're already infected,"
I'd say that's a pretty good argument for not supporting autoplay...
I was actually thinking about this today. The right method would be to use HAL notification events to prompt the user if they want to autorun when sticking a new cdrom in. There could even be warning text in the dialog so that if it pops up with other device insertion, the user would know that it could be a virus. -- Steven Edwards "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo