Which Windows setting should an administrator disable to prevent any program listed in an autorun.inf file from launching automatically when a user inserts removable media such as a USB flash drive?
Turn off Windows Defender Firewall
Enable write caching on the USB device
Enable Windows Quick Access
Disable AutoRun (Turn off AutoPlay) for removable drives
Disabling AutoRun (through the Turn off AutoPlay/NoDriveTypeAutoRun policy) stops the operating system from parsing and acting on commands in an autorun.inf file, thus preventing automatic execution of potentially malicious code on removable media. Other settings such as write caching, Windows Defender Firewall, or Quick Access do not influence the AutoRun mechanism. [Microsoft Learn - Enabling and Disabling AutoRun] | [CISA Alert AA09-020A]
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