tomalley8342@lemmy.worldtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Removable drives/thumb drives are potentially dangerous in Windows 11
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3 months agoYou are remembering that the executable features of autorun.inf is disabled, which is still true. Autoplay (if enabled) as it exists currently only applies for discovered media file types and makes your default configured media player responsible for handling them. It would not be possible to execute arbitrary tasks unless you had an ACE exploit for the installed media player.
That seems to be the opposite of what the others are saying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorun.inf#Inf_handling