alt Hacker NewsFor a time, windows would more readily run an autorun from a disc than from a usb stick. Even if that disc was in an emulated usb disk drive.
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myself248 • 01/17/2025
And the "u3" flash drives that did this were a hot commodity for a little while!
Then came the iODD and the IsoStick...
That's because there was malware that spread via autorun, which is rather harder to do with read-only media, even if it's emulated.