{"id":37946,"date":"2012-09-27T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=37946"},"modified":"2012-09-27T18:30:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T18:30:23","slug":"disable-autorun-on-your-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/disable-autorun-on-your-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable Autorun on your PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/disableauto.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"disableauto\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37950\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Rich Robinson for Windows Guides<\/p>\n<h3>Disable Autorun on your PC<\/h3>\n<p>Do you disable Autorun on your PC? Many viruses execute malicious code by running automatically on your PC via a thumb drive, network drive etc. If you haven\u2019t yet disabled Autorun, I recommend you do. This guide will show you the easiest way to disable Autorun in just a few minutes and will potentially save you from getting an avoidable PC virus that takes time (or money) to clean.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: For those that don\u2019t like using tools for tasks like this, there is a manual method using the registry editor or the Group Policy Editor (if your version of Windows has that feature enabled.) This is described, at length, in this Microsoft KB article: <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/967715\" target=\"_blank\">Disable autorun<\/a>. At minimum, I recommend you disable on drives of unknown type and on network locations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A simple tool for disabling autorun (see note above about manual method) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disableautorun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Disable Autorun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mintywhite.com\/vista\/avoid-the-majority-of-viruses-by-disabling-autorun-quick-tip\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article continued here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This excerpt appears with the permission of Windows Guides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/disableauto.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"disableauto\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37950\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The easiest way to disable Autorun in just a few minutes 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