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"Why THE FUCK are industrial controllers connected to the Internet still running Windows?"

A followup question I have is this:

When all is said and done how much will autorun.inf cost humanity ? Seriously. Is it in the hundreds of billions ?

We're almost 20 years into the lifespan of that file and it's still making front page mainstream news.



Q: Disabling AutoRun in Windows will stop USB worms, right?

A: Wrong. There are several other spreading mechanisms USB worms use. The LNK vulnerability used by Stuxnet would infect you even if AutoRun and AutoPlay were disabled.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002040.html




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