jtd wrote:
On Saturday 16 June 2007 16:36, Rony wrote:
Nishit Dave wrote:
I got infected when I used somebody's unscanned drive (or was it an ipod?). XP charmingly told me that my new software had been installed and would be loaded when I restart the machine.
So much for auto-loading software.
Did you complain to M$ about it?
Self loading anything is a big security hole. Even if it is restricted to userspace. A device driver on most of today's os loads into kernel space and could freak out on your machine.
Even in Linux?