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Sep 04, 2009 07:57 AM

Happy to help made an article on how to disable the autorun feature on a windows client.

You can find his article here:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-disable-autoplay-feature-prevent-virus-spreading-using-feature

This article continues where he left off. I think it would be a good decision for IT people to implement this like a domain policy to make sure the autorun feature is disabled. I know that this also can be done by using SEP and device control but still for those who has not yet implemented this feature or is still on an older version should do it.

I do not understand why the autorun feature even exist. Today it is a very anyoing way to get virus spread very easy. Anyone disagree?

It describes how you do the same thing in an active directory environment by using a group policy.

Open “Active Directory Users and Computers”

Right click on the correct “OU” and choose properties.

Open tab “Group Policy” and click to open

 

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Right click on the correct policy and choose edit to open the “Group Policy Object Editor”

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Go to “System” and click on “Turn off Autoplay”. Enable the policy on all drives.


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Below you can see an explanation of what turning of autoplay means.



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Done!

If you want to do the same feature on a single pc you could either follow the other article that is linked on top or use the software TweakUI (Powertoys from Microsoft)


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Enjoy!




This setting below should be applied on the domain controller.

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Dec 01, 2009 06:59 AM

You have to download KB971029 on the download page : Update for Windows XP (KB971029)

Regards,
Paolo

Sep 19, 2009 06:45 AM

Thank u for giving such a useful information. 

Sep 16, 2009 08:46 AM

Do you know if this update will go over windows update? 

Sep 14, 2009 10:58 AM

Looks like Microsoft has released the necessary item for many of us to resolve the autoplay functionality.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971029

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