Disable USB Drive Autorun
By: webmaster | Under: Troubleshooting
23
Oct
Some worms and trojans spreads by creating autorun.inf on removable media drives. To prevent being infected with compromised USB Drives, we have created this instruction to disable running of autorun files.
How to Disable USB Drive to autorun (Windows XP):
- Open Windows Explorer or press the Windows + “e” key.
- Right-click the drive of the USB Drive. Then select Properties. Drive Properties will appear.
- Select the AutoPlay tab.
- Choose Select an Action to Perform
- At the bottom of the selection, click Take no Action, then click Apply.
- Click OK to exit Drive Properties.
7 Responses for "Disable USB Drive Autorun"
I alredy try the suggestion of this site on how to disable usb autorun, but still it doesn’t work.
i also try the regedit and gpedit.msc but still none of it works. i hope this site will soon provide onother valid suggestion in disabling my usb autoran. thank you
so, the person should plug the potentially infected usb drive in THEN disable autorun….after autorun already had a chance to infect your pc. genious
okso: yeah, this tip is so stupid. F*ck it, i need a quick fix and all i get is this bullshit.
wkkwkwkw your are all stupid to belive this thing!!!! lol
here is something i want to share to you. I have just known it through experience.
try this one to disable autoplay on flash drives:
-on run command type: gpedit.msc
-go to computer configuration/administrative templates/system
-find: turn off autoplay
-set it to enabled
-restart to see if it works.
-try to insert a flash drive on windows start-up when you reached the desktop
pressing the shift-key while inserting the usb-unit will resolve the problem the first time you insert the device (skip autorun)
A more persistent way would be to add “NoDriveAutoRun” as a Dword entry under
[HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer]
the value is bitwise according to the following table:
Bit Drive Types
——————
0 Unknown drives
1 No root directory
2 Removable drives (Floppy, ZIP)
3 Hard disk drives
4 Network drives
5 CD-ROM drives
6 RAM disk drives
7 Reserved
Some basic binary math (or converting the binary bitmask to hex in calc set to scientific mode) tells that setting the (dword/hex) value “ff” (255 decimal, or 11111111 binary) will disable autorun on all units
try this step:
press window key + r
type gpedit.msc
in the user configuration node,
select Administrative Templates,
then System.
double click the turn off autoplay setting,
then click the enable (this will enable windows to turn off autoplay)
and choose All drives in the combo box to turn off autoplay in all drives,
finally click OK.
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