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-<note warning>This article is a work-in-progress. I am still adding and changing things. This warning will be removed when it is finished.</note>
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 Sadly, this convenience [[http://miekiemoes.blogspot.com/2008/11/please-disable-autorun-asap.html|comes with a heavy price]]. When you plug a flash drive into an infected computer, many viruses/trojans/etc. will copy a couple of files to that flash drive. One of the files is a tiny application with a single purpose, which is to infect any computer that the flash drive is plugged into. The other file is a driver that tells Windows to load the malicious application when you plug in the flash drive.
-So, what can you do do guard yourself from this? The best course of action is to disable autorun. Here are several tutorials on how to do this:
+So, what can you do to guard yourself from this? The best course of action is to disable autorun. Here are several tutorials on how to do this:
   * [[http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/disable-autoplay-of-audio-cds-and-usb-drives/|Disable Autorun on Windows XP Professional]]

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