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RE: Attack of the killer iPods

RE: Attack of the killer iPods

Posted Jun 28, 2005 14:49 UTC (Tue) by dvlmsd (guest, #932)
In reply to: Attack of the killer iPods by pilif
Parent article: Attack of the killer iPods

I *believe* the attack works as follows:

In windows there an "autorun" feature. If a CDROM or (USB) device has a "autorun.inf" file specifing an executale, that exec will be run, whether your logged in or not, when the disk/device is mounted. In this case the executable simply searches the disk for word files and copies them to the device.


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