A Question About Folders!

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senad

You can simply disable autorun function on removable drives
http://autorun.moonvalley.com/enable.htm
Also,most antivirus software prevent their execution.
Also autorun.inf is not a virus but a tool to trigger already existing virus.
Mind you, that file can also be very usefull. So it is up to you.
If you are affraid of the negative possibilities then just disable
the entire function. No big deal ....

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Thanks for response, But you all answered irrelevant.

@radhadkrishnan
I said that "autorun.inf" is name of a folder. It's a folder to prevent the Bad INF files from being written to the drive.
I know all about the precautions and viruses.
We're not dealing with viruses here. !

@Dragon-It
I can Rar the folder. I thought about it!
But after extraction of that RAR Archive the "immunity." or "zhengbo." folder becomes accessible and loses its original characteristics!
So there's no point in sending such a file.

@Danch99
In all service packs of windows XP autorun.inf files are welcomed and will be executed! So we have to disable the autorun manually.
I myself use Windows XP SP3.
Only windows 7 and vista do not accept autorun.
And about your question I should say that: Human always wants to know what he doesn't know.! It's in our nature!
I want to know the trick behind this. It's too bad for experts if they can't handle such a simple trick with folders. . .

@senad
Your answer was completely irrelevant. Please read the question carefully. It isn't an "INF" file but it's a folder.
But thanks for your reference.

Thanks to all. I'm waiting for your new responses.

autorun.inf-folder-all.JPG

senad

if I am not mistaken,you wrote :
"This autorun.inf folder prevents viruses to write their own inf file to the disk! "
autorun.inf resides on root drive and not in folder.
so your 'folder' is useless as these files get written to root drive.
if you place autorun in a folder it will not work.
I really do not know what your autorun folder is all about.
What's its function ? Certainly not in preventing autorun.inf from triggering viruses from spreading.
But if you believe that ....its ok.You're entitled to think whatever you want.

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Hooray !
I found out how to create a folder starting with a Dot!
I knew the solution for years but never tried it! It can be created via Dos commands. (MD command)

But I couldn't create a folder ending with a dot.
So I searched again and tried hard! I found out that there is a file manager called "Ztree" it's capable of renaming folders to add Dots to the end of names!

And I read somewhere that you can use win api to creat such a folder!
So that security software have used the second way.
Thank you all.
Good luck

I can easily create files and dirs with . at the beginning easily enough in cmd.exe prompt or any language such as VB, VBA, VBScript. Can create files ending in dot BUT they are seen as files with no extension. What you want is to create it with the filename part with a dot in I think... then anything that tries to access it will split it at the . for extension I guess and break... this is assuming file / extension are stored seperately.

Everything I have tried will translate the . on the end into nothing but a non extension file.

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Do you know a way to create them for windows script host (vbs files)? Because I'm not familiar with VB itself!

files with no extension are not needed! We need a folder with a dot at it end.

If you want to see a dot at the end of a folder name, download Ztree and rename a folder with 2 dots after it's name.!

dot at the start is easy... dot at the end every way I know if is treated as a file/folder with no extension rather than a dot in the name. If I find a way will post.

Steve

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Thanks Steve

No problem, at least I knew what yiou meant!

If you find a good way of creating them perhaps you could post it here for all of us.

Danny Child

OK, I can understand some technical curiosity about how to create an undeletable folder, and that's an interesting discussion point. I still say that security software that uses this as a defence against malware has missed the point.

Here's the article about how MS disabled AutoRun
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/967940

and some criticism of their method....
http://blogs.computerworld.com/the_best_way_to_disable_autorun_to_be_protected_from_infected_usb_flash_drives