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Posted Monday 2nd July 2007 12:12 GMT
Martin Owens

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You mean there are still computers out there that automatically execute code from external media? Why did Microsoft not pay any attention to all those floppy drive viri that infected old apple macintoshes for exactly the same reason.

One reason I like usb drives formatted to fat32; there isn't a chance in hell anything on there will have executable permissions (644) but still how many different things need to be done when external media is plugged in that warrants trusting the files on the device?

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