DVD burner firmware with adware installed?

[VirtualLarry]

link

 

[BW86]

thats insane

 

[KeithP]

Weird. However, according to that post it uses autorun to work. Don't most be disable autorun these days as a security precaution or is it just me?

-KeithP

 

[Schadenfroh]

Don't most be disable autorun these days as a security precaution or is it just me?

I do, but if it is enabled by default, to what do you think the majority of users have it set?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Don't most be disable autorun these days as a security precaution or is it just me?

I do, but if it is enabled by default, to what do you think the majority of users have it set?

I think recent-ish patches from Microsoft have disabled it for most (if not all) devices.