Microsoft Declares A Victory Against Autorun Malware

snoopy · Jun 18, 2011

Microsoft declares a victory against autorun malware
Microsoft appears to be winning a major battle against autorun malware.

A blog post this week by Microsoft's Malware Protection Center said the company discovered 1.3 million fewer infections on Windows Vista and XP caused by autorun malware from mid-February to mid-May, compared with the three months prior.

A persistent security threat for the past several years, autorun malware typically spreads through flash drives, memory cards, and other external devices courtesy of Microsoft's autorun feature, which automatically executes a command when the device is plugged in.

Autorun has been a trigger for some of the "top families" of malware, including Conficker, Rimecud, and Taterf, according to Microsoft.

In February, Microsoft started pushing out updates for Windows XP and Vista to lock down the autorun feature. The company had already rolled out a similar update for the release candidate of Windows 7 early in 2009.

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Dalo Harkin · Jun 22, 2011

Microsoft declares lots of things and we all know they don't come true.

People and companies are using cloud based systems and virtualisation more and more now, which eliminates the need for the likes of pen drives and memory cards.

If M$ released a specific patch for a specific problem 4 months ago, and now say the last 3 months they have noticed a decline then isn't that what you would expect?

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