Turn Autorun on for Removeable usb HDD but keep off for internal HDD ?

[DBenz]

Hi,
I had it from default, never did create this, that inserting a usb _HDD saw a window appear with options, and I normally chose the yellow folder, which opened the contents of the drive. That was a godsend as sometimes without it the drive letter wouldnt appear in win explorer, it would let me know its been seen by windows and would force windows to add it to the drive letters.


then along comes a trojan let in by kaspersky , it deletes it eventually, I then run kiS on C drive, then there was another window, find damage from malware, it was an Msoft wizard but with KiS logo, it found that autorun internal and network HDD was enabled, and that removables was enabled, without thought I went with its suggestions hit next and those were disabled, alas I need the removeable,

run wizard as it said can undo whatever I select, selected removeables, but hasnt nade any difference.


How do I get removables to autorun, but still have internal HDD not enabled, as internet says best have internals no autorun.


Kaspersky sent me steps but they turn on autorun for all. Their wizard had them as separate options so surely they are undoable separately also.


DBenz

 

[Lance1]

Give this a read it should help you out. Enable Disable AutoRun

 

[DBenz]

Hi,

I have the setting it says to create, value is hexadecimal 91, as I need to not have running autorun for internal drives, network drives and maybe unknown drives.
article says 8 for fixed 10 for network and 1 for unknown though not sure if I had that or not,.


looking at the settings having reverted pc back to last backup I see NoDriveTypeAutoRun was there and double clicking it shows hexadecimal value 91, and its also this number now that Kaspersky has turned off autorun on internal and network HDD and on removeable drives, then supposedly turned back on for removeables at my use of its undo commmand.
Clearly there is something somewhere else that has altered since that backup.


apparently with hexaxdecimal you add the numbers together but I dont get 91, not sure which of those options listed in the article you link to add up to 91 anyway.


DBenz

 

[johnhoh]

Autoplay is when windows sees a new drive and asks you what to do with it. It also asks you if you want to always do this action in the future, such as always open it in explorer. Autorun is different. Autorun is when windows finds an autorun.ini file on a new drive and runs it automatically. This link explains the difference.

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/autorun-vs-autoplay/

It sounds like you are talking about autoplay.

Autoplay can enabled/disabled for all drives, or just for removable drives (DVD and USB)

Here is an easy way to enable/disable it for either case
AutoPlay - Enable or Disable

Regarding autorun, unless you want your 5-year old to be able to insert a DVD and have it run an autorun.inf file automatically, you might as well disable autorun.

Autorun.inf Files - Completely Block