Datasheet

Book VIII

Chapter 1

Finding and

Installing the

Hardware You Need

791

Upgrading the Basic Stuff

Here’s how hard it is to use a USB drive in Windows 7:

1. Plug the USB drive into a USB slot.

If the USB drive you stick in a USB slot has an AutoRun autostarting

program on it, you see an AutoPlay notification, like the one shown in

Figure 1-8.

Figure 1-8:

Your

AutoRun

options.

2. Click one of the AutoPlay options.

You’re done.

Some parts of the AutoPlay notification (refer to Figure 1-8) can be con-

trolled by settings in files sitting on the USB drive itself. The Conficker worm,

for example, takes advantage of AutoPlay programmability and tries to trick

you into running the worm by using some clever wording. Figure 1-9 shows

the AutoPlay notification that appears when you stick a Conficker-infected

USB drive into a USB slot.

Figure 1-9:

The entry

marked

Install

or Run

Program

is bogus,

generated

Conficker.