[WinPartners] Quick mini-McAfee rant

[David James Broderick]

Autorun started out with good intent, but it has been subverted.
We had some awful viruses running around on thumb drives. Autorun in a disk or drive can execute and will not ask your permission.  You can thank the Conficker virus.


.-----Original Message-----
From: winpartners-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:winpartners-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Brandon Mills
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:03 PM
To: winpartners at mit.edu
Subject: [WinPartners] Quick mini-McAfee rant

I was trying to transfer files across the network this morning when I was consistently denied by McAfee. The offending file seems to be an autorun.inf file and I was finally able to copy the file by disabling access protection. Opened the file and it looked like an ordinary autorun.inf file. Guess McAfee just decided to stop me in my tracks to keep me 'safe' from it...

So if you think everything should be working, but for some reason things don't copy, try disabling McAfee.

-- Brandon
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