OK, so if you know me, you’re probably tired of hearing me complain incessantly about how my windozeXP machine was nailed by a virus/adware/malware crap recently. Something called Virtumode as well as some ridiculous program that corrupted all .doc and .jpg and .mp3 files, a mere seconds before the windows popup bubble says “Windows has detected corrupt files, click here to download File Fix Professional 2009” , which clearly is not something by windows.
I mean, would you believe the nerve of these people, infecting your machine with a virus that corrupts all your data, and then selling you the tool to fix it!? Talk about extortion!
Fortunately, I have a fileserver and I use SecondCopy to constantly sync my data on my desktop with the fileserver. Then if anything changes, I have it configured to move the original to a “deleted” folder while sync’ing, and keep that for up to 3 generations. It’s a pretty slick app and it’s saved me on more than one occasion. Well worth the $20 if you ask me. MAC users can try ChronoSync, not that you’d be attacked by a virus, but I digress.
So back to the point, configuring windows to not run stuff automatically, like when you insert a CD or a USB key or a camera or anything. First, there’s a registry hack that was the solution to a recent malware attack on USB keys:
