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How to Disable AutoPlay feature to prevent Virus spreading using this feature.

Title : How to Disable AutoPlay feature to prevent Virus spreading using this feature. Cause : Most of the Malware and worm uses autorun feature of windows to Spread & launch to your machine. ...

Published 16 years ago

Version 1.0

10.x

11.x

9.x and Earlier

Endpoint Protection (AntiVirus)

Enterprise Security Manager

Inside Veritas

Security

Maximilian

Level 2

16 years ago

It is easy to disable autorun from a central GPO (group policy object) that resides on the Domain Controller and thus making the rule apply to all clients in the organisation. To do that is I made an article that continues where this one left off.

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/more-how-disable-autoplay-feature-prevent-virus-spreading-way