Thursday, June 29, 2006, 7:37:16 PM, William Knop wrote: > On Jun 29, 2006, at 8:59 PM, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: >> Thursday, June 29, 2006, 12:02:38 PM, William Knop wrote: >>> Having the ability to autorun cds is most definitely not a >>> misfeature. >> Of course it's not. It's the perfect means of distributing trojans, >> backdoors, >> rootkits and other very useful software an every CD, including DVDs >> and music >> CDs.
> If your assuming said media is compromised in such a way, requiring > the user to manually run the executable will not protect him. The > fact is, most media is not compromised. Software publishers ensure > they are not. Most windows users can trust their software publishers. That's what SONY been telling all along... Vitaliy