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by vel0city 853 days ago
But back in the day, popping the disk in the drive would have just executed the autorun without even prompting you. Put the disk in the drive, suddenly new application running on your box as you (and generally, back in the day, as local admin). Not even a chance to say no.
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IIRC holding down shift when inserting the CD prevented auto-run.