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To autoplay an executable on a removable medium, create an "autorun.inf" file containing a command line indicating the executable you wish to run when the device is attached to the PC. The executable, if it contains a virus, will have its intended bad effect. If you put this combination on an SD card, for example, and then the SD card is attached to a Windows XP PC, the virus will be executed. This is basically the same mechanism that was used to propagate boot sector viruses on floppy disks when the PC was allowed to boot from a floppy (remember when?). The autoplay mechanism extends this process to other removable media.

To protect yourself, always use a resident virus scanner that scans everything that is opened. Secondly, do not allow autoplay to operate. See your Windows Help for instructions on turning off autoplay.

Here is a photo of the ENT and my hand. It would be very easy to read this small device in class while giving the appearance of merely staring stupidly at your palm.