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luciana1u
15 hours ago
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supriyo-biswas
15 hours ago
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We had autorun.inf in the past installing automatically from any random USB drive[1]. The fun days where you always feared contracting malware if you so happened to plug a random USB drive in :)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorun.inf
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Grom_PE
14 hours ago
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And some USB drives pretended to also be a CD-ROM to circumvent the limitation of autorun.inf not executing on removable media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3_(software)
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