20 Nov
2001
20 Nov
'01
7:03 a.m.
There's at least one worm that takes advantage of
a Quicktime feature (why
on earth did they put this in Quicktime?!) that will automatically run some
program on a volume when the volume is mounted. Don't remember the name of
this "feature," but it is akin to the windows "autorun," and just as
bad.
Easily turned off for the modern Mac users in the audience; go to Control
Panels, QuickTime Settings; select AutoPlay from the drop-down box; uncheck
Enable CD-ROM Autoplay. It is still in QuickTime as of 5.0.2, alas.
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