About Us

Welcome to Old McDonald’s Farm, home of Autorun Eater.

Old McDonald is a pseudonym I chose for myself partly due to the fact that I’m an Animal Science student in some university. You’ll also realise that Autorun Eater uses the goat to symbolize the application.

Programming is not my field but more of a hobby. Autorun Eater was born due to the increase of malwares using the ‘autorun.inf’ method to infect users unknowingly be it from flash drives, removable hard disks or any other removable storage device. When an infected device is infected with a malware and an ‘autorun.inf’ file is dropped, the shell menu is normally modified to execute the malware whenever the unsuspecting user double-clicks the infected drive.

Most anti-malware apps out there will almost instantly remove any malware detected but more often than not they leave the ‘autorun.inf’ file behind. And what if the anti-malware app fails to catch the malware? This is where Autorun Eater comes into the picture. Autorun Eater will remove any suspicious ‘autorun.inf’ files even before the user attempts to access the drive. This files are auto-backup’ed in case of false positives.

I firmly attest to the statement that, ‘Prevention is better than cure’.

Key features of Autorun Eater:

  • Install and forget, Autorun Eater monitors all drives(except A:, B:, and CD/DVD drives) in real time!
  • Manually scan drives A: and B: if you have access to either one or both(eg. Floppy)
  • Pause scan at any time
  • Set scanning priority
  • Deleted suspicious ‘autorun.inf’ file(s) are auto-backup’ed
  • Events are logged for future reference
  • Fix 3 common critical registry changes made by malwares

On top of that, Autorun Eater is a freeware and will always be one. We will never charge a single cent for you to use it. You can donate if you enjoy using Autorun Eater but it is purely voluntary - not donating does not mean you get a crippled Autorun Eater.

If you’re interested to use Autorun Eater, you can visit our download pages for the latest versions and updates. Any suggestions or bug(s) can be emailed to:

Till then, enjoy!

Old McDonald

April 10th, 2008