OT: paging MAC expert(s) --- What's a Performa?

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Tue Nov 20 15:03:29 2001

> There's at least one worm that takes advantage of a Quicktime feature (why
> on earth did they put this in Quicktime?!) that will automatically run some
> program on a volume when the volume is mounted. Don't remember the name of
> this "feature," but it is akin to the windows "autorun," and just as bad.

Easily turned off for the modern Mac users in the audience; go to Control
Panels, QuickTime Settings; select AutoPlay from the drop-down box; uncheck
Enable CD-ROM Autoplay. It is still in QuickTime as of 5.0.2, alas.

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