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It seems like they could be rendered ineffective by simply disabling auto run and forcing removable drives to mount noexec.
This should be the default on all PCs.
I thought we learned that like two decades ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
Maybe the target systems are more than 2 decades old.
To be fair, you could compromise Windows 98 by looking at it funny.
Does any Linux distro have autorun? Because Windows isn't really an OS anyway.
Windows isn't an OS? What kind of nonsense is this?
I'd say the team from DEC who created it, would differ.
It's more of an exploitation system than an operation system
Yes, Linux has autorun and some distros have it enabled by default.