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Preventing the spread of USB malware

Nice hack on http://milw0rm.com/papers/314 Author shows technique on how to create a non-writable AUTORUN.INF file on your USB stick that will prevent malware from creating their own AUTORUN.INF in it, thus protecting it from being infected. If you’re familiar on how to use a hex editor then this hack shouldn’t be that hard. You can [...]

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Registry editing has been disabled by your Administrator

WinXP PRO: gpedit.msc > User Config –> Administrative Templates –> System Disable or Not Configured = “Prevent access to registry editing tools” Normal XP: RUN this (just a single command, all in one line): REG add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v DisableRegistryTools /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

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