Solved preventing autorun from executing?

[Curious Mew]

I'm trying to prevent a possibly infected external hard drive from running its autorun file on my system. The drive has not been connected to my computer yet.

I downloaded 'Panda USB Vaccine' to prevent this on initial connection; but I'm still not sure if I can safely "double-click", transfer, or peek around inside the drive, without accidentally activating autorun in the process? That could totally defeat the purpose of the Panda program.

 

[Brink]

Hello Curious Mew,

You can use the tutorial below to completely block autorun.inf files before connecting it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/161443-autorun-inf-files-completely-block.html

Just be sure to scan the HDD before opening it.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Curious Mew]

Hello Curious Mew,

You can use the tutorial below to completely block autorun.inf files before connecting it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/161443-autorun-inf-files-completely-block.html

Just be sure to scan the HDD before opening it.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi Brink, I posted this thread through Tapatalk, and for some reason Tapatalk never sent me any notifications of your reply, so I didn't think anyone responded. I'm sorry I couldn't reply faster, I really do appreciate your comment.

While Tapatalk was keeping quiet.. I did manage to find help elsewhere, and I actually used the Microsoft Fixit 50471 tool found here. I combined this with Autorun Eater as a backup method, which also disables Autoplay. Hopefully this will help somebody else with the same problem, it worked like a charm.

 

[Brink]

You're welcome. I'm happy hear that you got it sorted.