How to effectively disable Autorun and Autoplay features in Windows (Vista / XP) ?
According to US-Cert : National Cyber Alert System Windows disabling AutoRun and AutoPlay by changing Group policy (gpedit.msc) are not fully effective . US-CERT recommends the following method to disable AutoRun .
Copy the registry values shown below and save it with '.reg' extension. For eg: "disableautorun.reg" .
![Save it with '.reg' extension](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuSCctqNJJx5xjAvntxfTZMVW1manTuXN1VPDRterSAP4RZ4-aTsKXEI08Oya66ZQcxFN9B1pxyPiuU0chV_3Zm_KsMnHxL9giydoEYmYohZ6KaE2nIYFkc5yvujcOMCYC3BLiNtBGhVQ/s320/autorun-registry-uscert.jpg)
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"
![Save it with '.reg' extension using Notepad](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIYrVD6Jltlar0cF92ZlJmRcYIfad61ctRXn6Pa4d7DYdDDi9fV_xg6kcXkkp_EcAlkp98Fb96qQ90urEJC1_V56gv8ZUeDAHgMQDkJDQ1k_Ewis1Vbaya_b1V2PdXdZx80ktsyyvLSU/s320/auto-notepad.jpg)
Double-click the file to import it into the Windows registry and restart Windows . Now Windows will ignore Autorun.inf file in removable storage devices.
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Source: US-Cert.
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