{"id":93153,"date":"2016-03-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=93153"},"modified":"2019-03-13T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:31:31","slug":"20160315-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20160315-00\/?p=93153","title":{"rendered":"Why doesn&#8217;t this registry hack for disabling autorun work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A customer reported that they used <a HREF=\"http:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/top-story\/one-quick-trick-prevents-autorun-attacks\/\">a registry hack<\/a> to disable Autorun, and it doesn&#8217;t work. &#8220;Do we have any documentation on the above registry key so I can check that they applied it properly?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There is no documentation on that registry key because it&#8217;s just some people putting together fragments of information in the hopes that something interesting will happen. Sort of like saying, &#8220;I found this Web site that says that if I take my vacuum cleaner, reverse the power leads, then plug it into a transformer that steps the voltage down, I can use it like a hair dryer. I tried it, but it doesn&#8217;t work. Is there any documentation on the Hoover Web site that goes into the details of this technique so I can check that I performed the steps properly?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There is a &#8220;Disable autorun&#8221; group policy. That is the supported mechanism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it never claimed to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-93153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Because it never claimed to.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}