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Using Autoplay on Vista To Stop Attacks

The January issue of TechNet Magazine has an article I wrote about how to hack a system using autoplaying USB flash drives. While it is not possible to stop all attacks from USB tokens, Vista does include some interesting protective measures. However, the autoplay decision flow in Vista is quite convoluted, so I wrote a flowchart to explain it all. Full details are in the article.

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Posted Sun, Dec 23 2007 12:41 PM by Jesper's Blog
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