US-CERT has issued an alert about a flaw in Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) guidelines on disabling the auto-run functionality, the feature from hell that causes certain optional code on removable media — or on network drives — to be automatically executed as soon as that drive is mounted as well as under certain other circumstances.
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